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WE SHOULD have guessed that the blog flyingcarsandfoodpills.com – dedicated to “the visionaries, madmen, and tinkerers who created the future that never was” – is by a Feedback reader. Steve Carper sends a 1911 image from Life, then a weekly humour magazine, answering our call for premonitions of the internet.
We had mentioned a “typical home of the future” in Modern Mechanics magazine in June 1931, with a “radio newspaper” (15 November). Steve’s picture has a gentleman surrounded by horns of the kind that used to…
