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Feedback: A gramophone news service

10 December 2014

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Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Gramophone news service

WE SHOULD have guessed that the blog – 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…

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