An encyclopedia of once-common things passing us by.

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My friend Heidi of HiHo sent this to me. It’s interesting how we anticipate future technology. Here, for example, Western Electric assumed that one day we’d have pictovision phones. However, even though our future selves would develop this amazing technology, there was the assumption that we would continue use corded handsets. Would that it were so!

My friend Heidi of HiHo sent this to me. It’s interesting how we anticipate future technology. Here, for example, Western Electric assumed that one day we’d have pictovision phones. However, even though our future selves would develop this amazing technology, there was the assumption that we would continue use corded handsets. Would that it were so!

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