Friday, January 04, 2008

She Said. She Liked. The Ocean.

Anonymous YM commenter musings...most likely from Bethesda.

40 year spans can do a lot. Do you realize it has been to same time from 1928 to 1968 as it has from 1968 to 2008?

  • 1928 pre-depression USA: speakeasies, easy chicks out on Long Island (Jay Gatsby), a Republican in and elected to the White House.

  • 1968 pre-depression drugs USA: joints being passed, easy chicks everywhere, and a Republican elected to White House.

  • 2008 pre-depression of biblical disasters USA: blogs being RSS-ed, easy chicks on the Internet, a Republican in and (maybe) elected to the White House.

    100 years is better, from Hampton's Magazine in 1908:
    "When the expectations of wireless experts are realized everyone will have his own pocket telephone and may be called wherever he happens to be. . . . The citizen of the wireless age will walk abroad with a receiving apparatus compactly arranged in his hat and tuned to that one of myriad vibrations by which he has chosen be called. . . . .When that invention is perfected, we shall have a new series of daily miracles.
    So, you have to ask - where is my hat to put my iPod, iPhone, vPhone, etc in?
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