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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This one is also nice and true until today

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/3428/103-Year-Old-Comic-Describes-What-Would-Happen-If-Pocket-Telephones-Are-Invented

Same with Musk's "revolutionary" Hyperloop, nothing new with the same people

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago

truly amazing meme

thanks!

[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

Pocket phone prediction is more spot on than the cartoonist themselves realized, Amish men got shunned because of the emergency alert test going off

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The thing he didn't foresee was the ability to turn the phone on silent mode.

We can put it on silent,, but that doesn't mean everybody does when they should!

[-] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Their hyper loop drawing is missing the Costco tube communication sound, a nice "thoonk!" Noise.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

The atmospheric railway! Patent US 21,652, system for turning rats into viscera.

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