Jason and The Visions of Futures Past

I thought this was pretty amusing, considering all the internet integration going on in libraries today. In 1962, a vision of the future was created by Arnold B. Barach in the book "1975: And The Changes To Come". The book contains a good handful of wonderful photographs documenting the march of technology. Here's the one on the new fangled Reference Finder:

Every 60 seconds, day and night, approximately 2,000 pages of books, newspapers, or reports are published somewhere in the world; and the output is increasing by leaps and bounds. Libraries will ultimately be forced to use computers such as this for locating documents and references, since it will be so difficult otherwise to keep up with the printed material.

There are plenty of other "future" visions at this link. Personally, I'm adding the lack of Toaster Bacon to the list of things I'm disappointed with the "future" about, right up there with the lack of jet packs and moon colonization.