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To: Publius6961

The image is fake. The caption is meant as a joke. As an example, the lineprinter console and the TV are pasted in, as is the person.


15 posted on 07/31/2008 10:04:15 AM PDT by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: Little Pig
The image is fake. The caption is meant as a joke. As an example, the lineprinter console and the TV are pasted in, as is the person.

Even if it is fake, when was it created?
Having been alive in 1954, I am aware of the state of technology of the time, and much more familiar with the early history of what followed, from 1960 through 1980. If the caption is fake, of necessity it must mimic the state of technology when the fake image was made, must reflect the assessment of technology that was current. It does not seem to be MAD Magazine material.

I recall literally dozens of such predictions in poplular magazines of the late 40s, 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, I did not have access to the highly technical journals where such predictions might have been made.

19 posted on 07/31/2008 10:16:46 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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The line printer is an obvious anacrhronism, being a DEC LA120 teleprinter circa 1980. But the TV is in character with the rest of the installation, which I believe to be a first-generation nuclear sub reactor control simulator/trainer.
26 posted on 07/31/2008 11:38:22 AM PDT by Erasmus (A: Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. Q: What do you play at a gay wedding?)
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