The 1964 World's Fair showcased jet packs and new miracles of science. There was an entire house made of Formica. You could wipe it clean with a sponge! The people who put the fair together tried to imagine how the future would look. Here are a few predictions, and how they actually turned out. 1. We had picture phones back then? Vito Turso was at the fair when he used one of the first picture phones . Back then, he was a boy selling pizza at the fair. He says the Picturephone was one of his favorite exhibits. "To walk into this room and have a conversation through what was like a small television — it was incredible," Turso said. "The lines to use the Picturephone were unending." But the Picturephone was expensive back then — and it took decades before the technology became affordable. Also, it turns out, people don't always want to see the person they're talking with. Even now, in the era of Skype and Facetime, people mostly just want to talk on the phone, without seeing the person
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