Predicting the future in 1999: Tech predictions 25 years on

Many of their predictions have since come to fruition in one form or another

Predictions about how computer devices would become small and portable enough to carry with us everywhere have since come to fruition. Picture: PA

At the end of the last century, commentators and futurists looked at the upcoming 2000s as the time when the world would change drastically because of a technology revolution taking place.

Many of their predictions – in particular about how computer devices would become not only central to daily life but small and portable enough to carry with us everywhere – have since come to fruition in one form or another.