[Michael.SF.]

Not only is this guy's predictions amazingly accurate, but he had CD's in 1980! (by the Carousel book)

But those cool glasses convince me it has to be real!

[mnehring]

Good catch. That does look like a CD jewel case laying in front of the Carousel record cover. Oops.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

All that effort... the furniture, the LP’s, the clothes, the glasses, the sideburns... and they leave a CD jewel case in plain view. Doh!

[the OlLine Rebel]

To be honest, I cannot see the area in question that well to be sure it is “CD jewel cases”.

The “Carousel” was not a book, but a Kodak slide projector (our organization has this very model, just as old). More evidence you cannot tell what those slivers of light on the shelf are, certainly if you cannot tell the big thing is not a book.

However, I think the film seems very fresh. It’s possible, but doesn’t seem to usually happen.

[SunkenCiv]

CDs were around in the late 1970s, just not in the US; they appeared in popular mags as the next big thing sometime around 1977 or 1978, and audiophiles (with serious cash) were enjoying them before 1980. I didn’t see my first CD until 1981 or ‘82, and they didn’t hit in the US until about 1984, when “Born in the USA” came out.

But no, he’s not a psychic.