AT&T Predicted The Future In These 1993 Ads - And Another Thing Is About To Come True

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In this 1993 ad, AT&T predicted the smartwatch.

In 1993, AT&T released a series of commercials grouped by the theme "you will."

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They were all about things people would be doing in the future.

Unlike most futuristic concepts, these turned out to be surprisingly accurate. True, there are no far-out ideas like flying cars, but there is plenty of great stuff that was mind-blowing in 1993.

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Today, most of this stuff is commonplace.

Today, we were reminded of these ads on Twitter by Conor Sen. Revisiting the ads, we saw yet another prediction that's about to come true thanks to smart watches getting popular.

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This is a good reminder of how far we've come in a very short period of time.