When I use public transportation to commute to work today or when I take longer trips with the train, every second person on the train seems to have a notebook open in front of them, while the other half interacts with their smartphone or tablet. Its 2026 after all. I’d like to think of myself as a pioneer of doing this because I used my notebook with a mobile Internet connection on a train a decade before it became popular. But actually, I’m a later adopter…
Have a look at the first 5 minutes of this Youtube video with a recording of a Beyond 2000 episode broadcast in 1988 about working and communicating on a train 40 years ago. Truly amazing then and truly amazing how far we have come since then.