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03-02-2003 10:04 PM ET (US)
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From Radebaugh's "Closer Than We Think!"
"ELECTRONIC HOME LIBRARY -- Home facilities for education and entertainment in the world of tomorrow will make today's television devices as obsolete as magic lanterns -- thanks to new developments in electronics. Such gadgets as the "television recorder" -- recently described by RCA's David Sarnoff -- will be commonplace. When a worth-while program comes on while you're away from home, or watching it for that matter, you'll be able to preserve it on tape (both sound and picture) for future replaying at your convenience.
Westinghouse's Gwilym Price expects such tapes to reproduce shows in three dimensions and color, using screens as shallow as a picture on a wall.
Further progress in this field will no doubt result in pushbutton availability of practically all cultural material. For example, you can count on microfilm-like projection of conventional books, with the pages enlarged for easier reading. And to increase the impact of lessons for students, there may be an electronic voice accompanying the visual images."
Not bad. In a few paragraphs, he does a decent job of predicting the VCR, TiVO, plasma screens, a Vannevar Bush-like Internet, pseudo-digital image projection, and electronic speech synthesis. The only thing Radebaugh really gets wrong is 3D image display.
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