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Facebook’s Portal Is The Jetsons Videophone That We Thought Humanity Skipped
Facebook announced its new Portal hardware today, a limited-purpose device that allows users to video chat on Facebook almost exclusively. And there’s something strangely retro about the concept: This is the standalone videophone device that George Jetson had in the 1960s and that AT&T imagined in the 1990s—the device that we were supposed to skip…
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How Soon Will You Be Able To See Over The Phone?
How soon will you be able to see over the phone? It may be sooner than you think. For the remarkable new Hughes Tonotron […] will make possible “face-to-face” telephone calls to and from your office or home. — Print ad in the March 1957 issue of Scientific American.