I've been sitting here perusing a book filled with old Coronet magazines from '58 - '59. I like seeing old advertisements and articles from back then. Ebay has a lot of these vintage magazines for sale.
They predicted the amazing phone of the future back in February 1959. That was 61 years ago.
It was predicted that it would end letter writing too and it looks like it basically has.
"In the kitchen, a speaker phone will enable wives to go right on with housework or cooking while they chat from any point in the room.
"And Junior will only need to pick up the telephone to be lulled to sleep by a recorded bedtime story."
" The housewife will be able to forget her chores. A simple phone call will show her the butcher holding up a leg of lamb for inspection. Similarly her children could learn their lessons over the TV telephone. "
They wrote about all this being possible because of the missile program.
It took them awhile but here we are. Gosh I could remember when we picked up our phones and the operator said, "number please" and we had to tell her what number we were calling.
Number please
How many of us could remember all the numbers we have now? I don't even remember my brother's number but it's programmed into my phone.
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