this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 77 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

This one is also nice and true until today

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/3428/103-Year-Old-Comic-Describes-What-Would-Happen-If-Pocket-Telephones-Are-Invented

Same with Musk's "revolutionary" Hyperloop, nothing new with the same people

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

truly amazing meme

thanks!

[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

Pocket phone prediction is more spot on than the cartoonist themselves realized, Amish men got shunned because of the emergency alert test going off

[–] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Their hyper loop drawing is missing the Costco tube communication sound, a nice "thoonk!" Noise.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The thing he didn't foresee was the ability to turn the phone on silent mode.

We can put it on silent,, but that doesn't mean everybody does when they should!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

The atmospheric railway! Patent US 21,652, system for turning rats into viscera.