There is no end to technology and similarly there was no start to it. Technology is just another name of evolution and evolution comes through time and prediction. Recently WebOwls published an article which stated that Google and other similar search engines might have been predicted in 1964 or even before.

Google Predicted in 1964

This piece which you see above has been extracted from the book “Childcraft Volume 6: How Things Change” published by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation in 1964 and gives an insight about the concept of search engines way back in the 20th century.

How The Future was anticipated in 1964

The picture gives the same concept of an answering-machine which you can practically visualize now a days in the form of a search engine. The publication gives the idea that in the future (which is now present for us) there will be answering machine which you could answer all your questions e.g. “Who invented the phonograph” etc. Plugin the same question in Google and see how well the prediction of 1964 goes.

Checkout WebOwls for a complete analysis on how well the answering machine of 1964 relates to the search engines of today and here is a full piece of the extracted publication.