hugo gernsback
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This Video Chat Prediction From 1918 Was So Much Cooler Than Zoom
People living in the year 2020 have plenty of options for talking over video chat: Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Portal, and perhaps the most popular video app of our pandemic era, Zoom. But none of them look nearly as cool as this idea published in a tech magazine from 1918, a time when radio broadcasting was…
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People Used To Blame Earthquakes And Droughts On New Radio Technology
New technology is scary. Just ask the people who think that their illnesses are caused by Wi-Fi. But blaming unfortunate things on newfangled technology has been happening for decades, if not centuries. Like when farmers of the 1920s used to blame too much rain, earthquakes and droughts on the new technology of radio.
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Hugo Gernsback’s Vision For The Flying Car Of 1973
Briefly: Hugo Gernsback’s vision for the flying car of 1973, as it appeared on the May 1923 cover of Science and Invention magazine. The thing had two wheels, a bubble-top and a push-button control panel.