The craziest stuff that could happen, but most likely won't.

The teachings of David Icke gain widespread attention and interest throughout the middle east where his belief in the existence of reptiles posing as humans is hybridised with Islamic views on demons, he becomes a major spiritual and political authority not sure if that would work or where it will end up!
 
The teachings of David Icke gain widespread attention and interest throughout the middle east where his belief in the existence of reptiles posing as humans is hybridised with Islamic views on demons, he becomes a major spiritual and political authority not sure if that would work or where it will end up!

So in the end David Icke ends up becoming the chief Ayatollah of Iran.
 
Here, I'll start: Instead of killing himself, Kurt Kobane gets clean and enters politics, becoming governer of Washington, and eventually president. No this is possible, so it's not ASB, but still unlikely.

its probably a TL on the alternate history wiki
 
Sumerize please.
Well, in his vision PCs (he called them "memexes") were purely electro mechanical devices, essentially fax machine that wrote on microfilm+punchcard-like associative indexing (he ranted that alphabetical indexes make no sense) and hyperlinking of those microfilms. He estimated that then-current Encyclipaedia Britannica would fit on a roll the size of a matchbox, but it won't be transmitted over the fax, but rather mailed to the buyer.

Then, he thought that primary input method for the memex would be speech (and he suggested rather clever scheme for purely analog speech recognition) but due to that analog system's limitations the language you would talk to memex won't be English as spoken then, but phonetically simplifierd version. (a he compares it to shorthand systems)...

Then he thought of a "wholly new types of encyclopedias", surprisingly similar in concept to wikis.

In other words, as far as functionality goes, he was mostly right on the money (Frex, you can buy EB in DVD-ROM format and install it on USB drive (which would fit in matchbox) and electronic EB contains links and associative index in addition to alphabetical one) but his suggestions on how exactly this would be done were off by miles, but they weren't technically wrong either.

And his ideas on how really useful spech recognition and associative indexing will be aren't that accurate either, OTOH they are here and are used.

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Or, another gem:
Take the prosaic problem of the great department store. Every time a
charge sale is made, there are a number of things to be done.. The
inventory needs to be revised, the salesman needs to be given credit
for the sale, the general accounts need an entry, and, most important,
the customer needs to be charged. A central records device has been
developed in which much of this work is done conveniently. The
salesman places on a stand the customer's identification card, his own
card, and the card taken from the article sold - all punched cards.
When he pulls a lever, contacts are made through the holes, machinery
at a central point makes the necessary computations and entries, and
the proper receipt is printed for the salesman to pass to the
customer.

But there may be ten thousand charge customers doing business with the
store, and before the full operation can be completed someone has to
select the right card and insert it at the central office. Now rapid
selection can slide just the proper card into position in an instant
or two, and return it afterward. Another difficulty occurs, however.
Someone must read a total on the card, so that the machine can add its
computed item to it. Conceivably the cards might be of the dry
photography type I have described. Existing totals could then be read
by photocell, and the new total entered by an electron beam.

The cards may be in miniature, so that they occupy little space.
If only he replaced mini-punchcards with "bar codes" or "RFID tags". Modern inventory system, pretty much accurately described.
 
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Anyone else notice that this is becoming like the famous people in alternate realities thread?

Anyway, the press covering up where Obama's blank credit card money came from.

Nevermind, that's VERY likely to happen. Friggin' Democrat puppy media!:mad:

Ok, ok. Heinrich Himmler's "tomb" is discovered after German police forces track a violent conspiracy theorist. Himmler apparently apparently died under the care of a German widow in 1972.
 
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