Computer of the Future!

This is how the RAND Corporation, about 50 years ago, envisioned a home computer would look in the year 2004:



...or is it? Actually, it's a fake. It's an entry in a Photoshop contest from a website called Fark (some parts of the website may be considered mildly not work-safe (the occasional woman in a bikini) -- so just a warning if/before you click). Here's a link to the original thread containing the entry and the entries of others. (Reading Nicholson Baker's book made me think of digital manipulation.) To be clear, it was never intended as a hoax, but it has fooled people into thinking it was legitimate. Caveat spectator!