pachelbelsheadcanon:sunrisetune:thetrashiestoftrash: pablophonic:yesterdaysprint: Daily Mirror, En
pachelbelsheadcanon:sunrisetune:thetrashiestoftrash: pablophonic: yesterdaysprint: Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. I forget who originally said it, but there’s a quote about “Great science fiction isn’t predicting the automobile, it’s predicting the traffic jam” “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam,” Frederik Pohl. Who, it’s worth noting, lived from 1919-2013, so he watched cars become commonplace. [ID: A six-panel comic drawn in cartoonish line sketches, showing people being inconvenienced by cellphones. The title is, “When We All Have Pocket Telephones”, and the comic is captioned, “We shall certainly be ‘rung up’ at the most awkward times in our daily lives!”.The examples are your phone going off while running for the train, when your hands are full, when it’s raining, at a concert (with other people shushing you while glaring), when you’re given a baby to hold, and when you’re in the middle of getting married./End ID] Addendum to ID: The cartoon being from 1923, the “pocket telephones” are depicted as the detached handset of an early landline phone. -- source link