The telephone of the future (big picture warning - 116kb)

[Bucky]

ad published in 1944.

[dembotoz]

1. confernce phones still around

polycom the biggy in the field
They look more like a flying saucer than an electric can opener.

but

the add was right

[Auggie]

2. How silly will our technological predictions look in 65 years?

[Bertha Venation]

3. Interesting that no one conceived of push buttons.

I wonder when that innovation first hit engineers' minds.

[dembotoz]

6. tone vs rotary was quite a jump

they had to make it work on a whole lot of old equipment.

[crispini]

4. Speakerphone!

I loves me some speakerphone.

[datasuspect]

5. i'd love to have a phone like that in my office.

[MilesColtrane]

7. Does the low/high switch instantly connect you to pharmacist/pizza delivery?

[JBoy]

8. Uhura predicted bluetooth technology

[swimboy]

9. They were right about an awful lot.

I read somewhere that we are moving toward our Star Trek future.

We could do worse.