When T3 magazine launched in 1996, I’d been out of school for a few years, but looking back on a quarter century of tech reminded me of something a teacher once said. She was asked, as I recall, about getting older and her response was: “You’ll be amazed at the things that are invented in your lifetime.” It clearly stuck with me, as that was a long time ago and yet I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
Thumbing through issue one of T3 I’m struck by a few things. Even then, the magazine was enthusiastic about electric cars. GM’s EV1 was the subject, and while that car was never a success it wasn’t because it wasn’t good. And even then, the naysayers wrote letters claiming it wasn’t as clean as petrol or diesel.