Hello, I cannot resist mentioning this article about "Your Telephone of Tomorrow" published on 1956. <http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/31/your-telephone-of-tomorrow/#more-1261>Your Telephone Of Tomorrow (Sep, 1956) <http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/31/your-telephone-of-tomorrow/#more-1261>Source: Mechanix Illustrated 9-1956<http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/31/your-telephone-of-tomorrow/#more-1261>
It starts saying: ON SOME night in the future a young man walking along Market Street in San Francisco may suddenly think of a friend in Rome. Reaching into his pocket, he will pull out a watch-size disc with a set of buttons on one side. He will punch ten times. Turning the device over, he will hear his friend's voice and see his face on a tiny screen, in color and 3-D. At the same moment his friend in Rome will see and hear him. The disc will be a telephone, a miniature model equipped for both audio and video service. Back in 1952, Harold S. Osborne, retiring chief engineer of American Telephone & Telegraph, envisioned this tiny instrument as the ultimate shape of the phone. In the future, said Mr. Osborne, a telephone number will be given at birth to every baby in the world. It will be his for life. When he wants to call anyone, no matter where, he will merely push the buttons on his Lilliputian phone. "If he does not see or hear him, he will know his friend is dead," the engineer concluded. :-))) How far from this picture is our imaginary at the present? I found it here: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/31/your-telephone-of-tomorrow/#more-1261(look at the cover image!) Regards, Soledad -- Soledad Caballero Montevideo - Uruguay http://serendipity.wikispaces.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
