Time Travel

In 1961, the digital future was just starting to come to fruition

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AT&T Archives is a film that not only serves as almost the birth of the information age, it also projects technology far into the future. It is divided in approximately two parts —

Part I: the problems of the present, and part II: the way those problems could be solved by the technology of the future.

The commercial products that would allow this connected, computer-communicating network? They're basic, but at the time seemed radical:

The wireless Bellboy Pager, which was introduced commercially in 1962
The Data-phone, which was supposed to revolutionise business communications
The videophone—shown as a credit-card-reading vertical two-way television
The card-reading phone or automatic dialler, which would dial a number from small plastic punch cards, introduced in 1961
Oh, and package delivery via rocket (which had just been tested in 1959).

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In 1961, the digital future was just starting to come to fruition

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AT&T Archives is a film that not only serves as almost the birth of the information age, it also projects technology far into the future. It is divided in approximately two parts —

Part I: the problems of the present, and part II: the way those problems could be solved by the technology of the future.

The commercial products that would allow this connected, computer-communicating network? They're basic, but at the time seemed radical:

The wireless Bellboy Pager, which was introduced commercially in 1962
The Data-phone, which was supposed to revolutionise business communications
The videophone—shown as a credit-card-reading vertical two-way television
The card-reading phone or automatic dialler, which would dial a number from small plastic punch cards, introduced in 1961
Oh, and package delivery via rocket (which had just been tested in 1959).

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No items found.

In 1961, the digital future was just starting to come to fruition

‍

AT&T Archives is a film that not only serves as almost the birth of the information age, it also projects technology far into the future. It is divided in approximately two parts —

Part I: the problems of the present, and part II: the way those problems could be solved by the technology of the future.

The commercial products that would allow this connected, computer-communicating network? They're basic, but at the time seemed radical:

The wireless Bellboy Pager, which was introduced commercially in 1962
The Data-phone, which was supposed to revolutionise business communications
The videophone—shown as a credit-card-reading vertical two-way television
The card-reading phone or automatic dialler, which would dial a number from small plastic punch cards, introduced in 1961
Oh, and package delivery via rocket (which had just been tested in 1959).

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