Your Telephone of Tomorrow (Circa 1956)

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.

“If he does not see or hear him, he will know his friend is dead,” the engineer concluded.

I’ve often assumed the same thing when someone doesn’t asnwer. If you can get back that last sentence this article from 1956 is incredible in it’s vision of the future of telecommunications.

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