Over atPaleo - Future Blog , Matt Novak document the future tense that never was . Here , Novak take a look at an electronic program library from Arthur Radebaugh ’s capricious futurist cartoonist strip , Closer Than We suppose .
Remember 1959 ? You were just 9 years sure-enough , with not a upkeep in the man ( except maybenuclear winter ) . You spread the Sunday paper out across the aliveness room floor of your suburban Chicago family , and excitedly flip to the funny Page . Closer Than We Think ! Your dearie !
What grotesque hope from the future didMr . Radebaughhave for you this calendar week ? Cars thatrun on sunshine?Tomatoesas big asVerne Gagne‘s head?Underseas highwaysto the farming of irreverent commies ? No , something even more ridiculous ! A home library of electronic medium ! What a eldritch futurist world that would be ! Gosh golly , what will they guess of next !
Some unusual inventions for household amusement and pedagogy will be yours in the future , such as the “ television recorder ” that RCA ’s David Sarnoff key out recently .
With this machine , when a worthwhile computer program come over the air while you are off from home plate , or even while you ’re find out it , you ’ll be able to save both the delineation and phone on tape for play back at any time . Westinghouse ’s Gwilym Price expects such tapes to multiply appearance in three dimension and color on blind as shallow as a video .
Another pushbutton development will be projection of microfilm al-Qur’an on the ceiling or wall in turgid type . To increase their impact on student , an electronic voice may go with the visual passages .
Eternal thanks to my close Than We retrieve zori Tom Z. , without whom I would be living in a inhuman , dark world of grim and white risible strips .
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