If R2-D2 gave up on rebellion and settled for fetching beers.

Jokes aside, so many gadgets and the tech behind them took decades to become genuinely useful.

Curious: what’s a piece of old tech (hardware or software) that was ahead of its time, and only now are we seeing real progress toward its original vision?

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This is the same video featured in the news article.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycn46hUGMw8