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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
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![]() Not really a prediction, Wilcox shows us a future that is now gone, thanks to highly readable displays that are so thin and light you can carry them throughout the house.
By the year of this story, W9XZY of St. Louis delivers the First Daily Newspaper by Radio Facsimile. More than 1,000 U.S. households are experimentally equipped with fax receivers that electronically print morning newspapers overnight.
Compare this device to the personalized news from Hugo Gernsback's 1911 novel Ralph 124c 41 + and the homeopape from his 1969 novel Ubik (it is also called the homeostatic newspaper in his 1963 story If There Were No Benny Cemoli).
Don't forget the oldest reference I know about, the home news printer from The Senator's Daughter (1879) by Edward Page Mitchell. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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