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Friday Fun: Visions of the Future

These drawings are fun from 1910. (http://centeredlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/09/world-in-2000-as-predicted-in-1910.html   via Centered Librarian)

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2011/03/world-in-2000/  Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000.

 

There are quite a few more after the link that are delightful.

Stephen

 

 

 

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Posted on: September 30, 2011, 8:41 am Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Jay Velgos said
    on October 1, 2011 11:10 am

    I especially like the hand-cranked device that inexplicably takes books dropped into the bin on top and converts them into audio signals. Think how inexpensive audio books would be today if: 1) there was no need to hire celebrities to record the books; and 2) publishers could use child-labor to crank the machines!

  2. admin said
    on October 2, 2011 2:36 pm

    Hi Jay: The Kuzweil machines can read print books out loud although it’s mainly limited to the visually impaired. Also, the Gale ReadSpeak feature reads any article online out loud. Sadly, they never sound like celebrities. Maybe some star will leave his or her voice to science!
    Stephen