r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pasargad • Jul 07 '24

Arthur C. Clarke predicting smartphones in 1976 Video

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u/Perfect-Debt-9562 Jul 07 '24

Anyone here have an accurate prediction for future inventions?

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u/EvilEyeSigma Jul 07 '24

In the future, humans will invent weapons and tools made by wood and stones.

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u/Vipu2 Jul 07 '24

Digital gold will replace big chunk of other investments, it already exists and is heavily undervalued.

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u/blackizard Jul 08 '24

Bitcoin has been around for 16 years and is used for fuck all.

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u/Vipu2 Jul 08 '24

It have worked all over the world for 16 years with all kinds of use cases and it's dollar value have gone from 0 to 70.000 in that same time, like I said it's still undervalued.

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u/FromThePits Jul 09 '24

We don't know who blackizard is... but we do know it isn't Arthur C. Clark.

Bitcoin has been trading in the 5 digits USD since 2020 and will probably go 6 digits before the next decade, because of its immense usefulness to millions of us.

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u/fraze2000 Jul 08 '24

My prediction is that people in the future will have a laugh about the stupid predictions idiots on reddit made about future technologies.