Video Distraction: Home Office of the 21st Century

Walter Cronkite in the Home Office of 2001 (1967)

In this 1967 clip from the CBS news series, The 21st Century, Walter Cronkite predicts what the home office of the year 2001 would look like. He was a bit off, but oddly enough, this is exactly how I always imagined my retro Bond-esque villain lair would look one day... except one of my walls will be a giant shark tank.

With equipment like this in the home of the future, we may not have to go to work. The work would come to us. In the 21st century it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console.