AT&T future-predicting video of the day: “Seeing the Digital Future” (1961)
In 1961, the digital future sure looked like “A man talking to another man. Man to man. Man to Machine. Machine to machine.” Devices such as the Call Director, “fingertip access to information, ideas and decisions” were considered very advanced pieces of communication hardware. Today, we’d scoff at such a fancy “hold button” taking up so much desk space.
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