Jon Baer wrote:

> I find this to be a bold prediction ... I might as well predict
> intergallactic cards installed by 2020.

In the 1920s, when radio was new (as in "new to most people", just
like the Internet was "new" in the 1990s), lots of people predicted
that television would be everywhere within five years.  That helped
build the stock market bubble that burst in 1929.  I guess some people
just continued to make wild hi-tech predictions all through the 1930s.
Eventually TV did come along in the 1940s and was "everywhere" by the
mid 1950s or so.

Reading radio tech magazines from the 1920s brings such a dejavu of
all the crazy Internet predictions from this last decade.  If you read
some Swedish, you might enjoy the ones I've digitized at
http://runeberg.org/radioama/ and http://runeberg.org/popradio/


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  Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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