Back in September of 2004, we ran a sidebar in the Dream Machine issue where a couple of editors made their predictions about what the Dream Machine of 2010 would look like. Well, it just so happens that the 2010 Dream Machine issue is on newsstands now, so we thought we’d take a look at how those predictions held up. First, the predictions in question:
So how’d we do? Well, Logan (now the Editor in Chief of PC Gamer) pretty accurately described the modern smartphone. Still, don’t expect to see an iPhone on the cover of the September issue of Maximum PC any time soon. Josh Norem…. Well, the less said about his predictions, the better. We will, unfortunately, have to wait for another 90 years before we can test Will’s predictions.
But Gordon’s predictions… Not half bad! Being as he’s right here in the office, we asked him to tell us about his predictions, and about the reality of this year’s Dream Machine. Here’s what he had to say:
“As some of you may know, I successfully predicted many months before the iPad launched that it would have an Apple OS, CPU, and no keyboard.
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