Re:Ladies Home Journal (1900) Predictions for 2000
by mmastrac on Friday January 01, 2010 @06:42PM
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I think the big leap here for him was seeing live events vs. pre-recorded films. When these predictions were written, silent films would have been commonplace and live radio broadcasts weren't around. News would have been distributed via newspaper, sent world-wide by telegraph.
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Re:Ladies Home Journal (1900) Predictions for 2000
by joezydeco on Friday January 01, 2010 @09:30PM
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But the phonograph was around for 20 years or so. So there was some information storage, just not the concept of mass reproduction and distribution.
Re:Ladies Home Journal (1900) Predictions for 2000
by mmastrac on Saturday January 02, 2010 @12:58PM
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The phonograph and newspaper were forms of mass reproduced, widely distributed storage though. Most of their media at the time would have been from persistant storage of some form, created once and sold many times over (newspaper, records, player piano rolls, etc).