How Far We’ve Come – How Far to Go
I just came across this hilarious and fascinating look into the not-so-distant past: a news report from 1981 about an experimental service to distribute newspapers over a telephone network which pre-dates the internet! It’s interesting to hear them make the prediction that print newspapers would be made obsolete within a “few years”. Clearly that hasn’t happened – yet.
I’m also all about the hairstyles in this piece…
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[…] media as an inevitable facet of the future. And it likely is. But as Nicholas Fitzgerald points out, we’re not the first generation to make this claim. The reporters in the 1981 television clip […]
[…] media as an inevitable facet of the future. And it likely is. But as Nicholas Fitzgerald points out, we’re not the first generation to make this claim. The reporters in the 1981 television clip […]