Gizmodo is 20 years old ! To fete the anniversary , we’re looking backat some of the most significant agency our lives have been hurl for a loop by our digital creature .
In the future tense , you ’ll be able to inhabit a virtual world , meeting up with friends to chat and mill around around with an embodiment you ’ve make yourself . This virtual “ you ” will be customizable and there will be no limit to this awesome populace . It all vocalize a bit like the future company like Meta have in mind here in 2022 . But it ’s also what was being sold as “ the future ” when Gizmodo was first founded 20 years ago .
We ’ve been publishing Gizmodo since the site was founded in the summertime of 2002 . And we ’ve discover the wage hike and downslope of countless engineering . Many of those technologies were mere promises of the time to come . And they frequently did n’t turn out quite the way they were ab initio envision . But some of the predictions were incredibly accurate .
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To lionise our twentieth anniversary , we ’re taking a look at visions from 2002 .
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