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Comment by dredmorbius

This isn't the first time gratuitous "technologisation of stuff" has been proposed, though it seems to be proceeding rather apace.

From 1922, "Radio All the Things!": http://i.imgur.com/TSJnicdl.jpg

(Via: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2015/01/videophones-from-fut... and origionally: http://wi.mobilities.ca/grant-wythoff-aerophone-telephot-hyp...)

Or the original book if you'd prefer: Hugo Gernsback, Radio for All (1922): https://archive.org/details/radioforall00gerniala

I think I know what a radio phone might do. Radio clocks even exist (though a networked NTP timekeeper is more useful). I'm not sure I'd care to fly in a radio-controlled airplane. And I'm utterly perplexed at what a radio heater might be -- unless it's a microwave space heater, or an early instance of Nest.

parent dredmorbius 10 years ago

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