This is just a short article featuring a dead-on prediction about the future of telephones from 1953. I'm sure it's not the only one. The main point, made here by Colin Marshall, is that "in all human history, not a single piece of technology has actually come out of nowhere." That's a point worth keeping in mind the next time you read about some 'breakthrough' invention. The breakthrough is mostly in the marketing.
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