• @Buffalox
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    6 months ago

    That’s pretty spot on, I’m especially impressed by the “every hour” news, which has absolutely been a thing for news casts for a while now.
    I wonder how he would have responded to the ability for instant news? And every hour becoming kind of old fashioned.

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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      206 months ago

      Right! I think the only thing they missed is airplanes just not being necessary for delivery (unless you count in-flight wi-fi). And the grammaphone was just leapfrogged; the first news radio broadcast was only 7 years after this cartoon

  • magic_lobster_party
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    396 months ago

    They didn’t predict newspapers will contain so many ads it’s almost unusable.

    Also, each newspaper is distributed by individual articles, so each article has to be low quality bait.

  • Justin
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    256 months ago

    I have to use one hand for my phone while eating, look what they took from us 😭

  • @scifun
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    36 months ago

    The tiny newspaper is littered with advertisements that you gotta block by wearing these specially glasses.