“Everyone will have his own pocket telephone that will enable him to get in touch with anyone he wishes. People living in the Wireless Age will be able to go everywhere with their transceivers, which they will be able to affix wherever they like— to their hat, for instance …“
Robert Sloss: “The Wireless Century,” in: “The World in 100 Years,” Berlin, 1910

an all-consuming thing that would destroy all competing institutions, inalterably change how we live and work, and destroy all alternative communication forms, including newspapers, magazines and personal relationships and even most writing and human speech. The implications of that are an order of magnitude more dangerous than Clarke's psychopatic computer HAL and far more destructive of human relations than Gibson's "Information Sickness."

I used to work on computers that looked exactly like that. By 1974 I had already been a programmer for 12 years! My folks thought I was crazy when I told them I wanted my own computer at home. Now my mom is 90 and she spends hours on the computer every day writing her blog, doing research, keeping up with friends around the world. She says she can't imagine going back to a world without a computer in her den.

where you got that cool DU Medicare For All banner? I guess I could just copy it to my hard drive and upload it for use, but I was wondering if there is some more "official" way to acquire it.

They have it in their store, but I can never find the link. I have no credit for the cool design. It's sold in the DU store on Cafe Press. Perhaps someone will give you a link.

They were using things on the Moon colony and space ship that we use today although I don't think we are ready for the mushed food in tube trays yet. I saw the movie way back when it was first released and all those things were really Sci-Fi. We hadn't yet even landed on the moon. Arthur C. Clarke was so ahead of his time.

They are ALWAYS right! It's the dang internet making them so trivia smart. Imho, the internet is too dangerous for kids under.....thirty! Thanks for posting, next time smart alecky kid brings up topic, i'll have to say: "See? Exactly as I told you, I saw that movie when it first came out and there absolutely WAS a laptop aboard that space station!!!"

broke off with a guy she was dating because he was really strange.

He used to talk about rockets and going to the moon.

Those were the days.

Today they are called nerds, I believe.

I remember hanging tapes like those and pulling printouts off printers just like those in the video. To bad they didn't show an old punch-card machine. Those were a pain.