Recently, I have spoken with a few friends (and an awesome author) about technology.
I can’t help but think about how limited we are in our perceptions. We can’t help it, really. We can only predict the future of technology based on what we know, and what I do know, is there is more to be discovered.
Do you know how long we have been able to have face to face remote communication (aka: video chat)?
Since at least 1968:
Western Electric is crossing a telephone with a TV set.
What you’ll use is called, simply enough, a Picturephone set. Someday it will let you see who you are talking to, and let them see you.
The Picturephone set is just one of the communications of the future Western Electric is working on with Bell Telephone Laboratories. Western Electric builds regular phones and equipment for your Bell telephone company. But we also build for the future.
Incredible.
[via Paleofuture]
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