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Future Newspapers (1913)(lemmy.world)

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OpenStars@discuss.online
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And a happy future today to you too:-)

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Buffalox@lemmy.world
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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.

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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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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

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smeg@feddit.uk
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We do have small aircraft (drones) being used for deliveries now though, so not completely wrong

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Kelly@lemmy.world
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And the grammaphone was just leapfrogged; the first news radio broadcast was only 7 years after this cartoon

These phone services were the current tech when the strip was printed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_newspaper

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Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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I have to use one hand for my phone while eating, look what they took from us 😭

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Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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Your phone can do text to speech. And it can play radio.

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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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Counterpoint: Podcasts

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magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
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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.

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

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