Those are interesting, but I don't know how instrumental they were in any of those technologies, other than that they had (and probably still have) the best infrastructure for remote delivery. But others are catching up. The internet was around a long time before people used it for shopping and showing others what they had for dinner. I'm guessing their marketing team made a laundry list of emerging tech and/or things they were discussing with partners and those ads were the result. The faxing from the beach thing is a jarring exception though...not sure a lot of younger people even know what a fax machine looks like. It also shows how somewhat naive we were at the time about the negatives of a totally interconnected society. Convenience is great, but the cost is sometimes much higher than expected.
Sellick has a good narration voice, but I wonder how many would even recognize it today. There are a number of tools which can run locally on your machine to do it for you if you are serious
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good VR machine can do a pretty good job with many free and local AI apps. You just need some Python familiarity to get them running.