Wild tech predictions from 1999 and how many are coming true in 2025 | News Tech [Video]

As Y2K and the new millennium loomed, scientists, commentators and futurists started looking to the 2000s as a time of rapid change.

Thanks to the tech revolution, many of the predictions in 1999 – most notably the idea that computers would become small and portable enough to take everywhere with us – have come to fruition.

But some of those visions of the 21st century are yet to materialise fully in reality.

One prediction from ’99 was that every home would get a so-called ‘smart box’, a lockable and refrigerated box outside every front door to allow post and perishable items to be stored after delivery.

Delivery lockers and pick-up points have become widespread, but the prediction failed to anticipate how quickly deliveries could be made, or how logistics firms would develop ways of chilling food during transit.

Before becoming one of the world’s best-known tech billionaires, Jeff Bezos predicted …