Reddit resurfaces Bill Murray's 1982 'first they start with the digital watches' clip as AI prophecy
alanskimp · reddit · 2026-10-20
A vintage clip is making the rounds on Reddit captioned "Bill is such a Futurist...": in a 1982 interview, Bill Murray says "First they start with the digital watches," which the AI community is now sharing as an eerily apt commentary on how technology incrementally takes over — a perfect decades-early prediction meme for the AI era.
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