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It's weird how some of these futurists got some of the details right (viewing news on the TV) while missing the obvious (being able to read / select / zoom-in on one article).
Can you imagine how awful it would be to project a newspaper's front page 1:1 on a TV, then try to read it? Even with a 4k TV the text would be small, and there's no way you could read it from the couch.
I don't have to imagine. I was there 3000 years ago. In the early days of the web they saved entire newspaper pages (as printed!) as single image files. You'd have to zoom in and pan around the page to read it. It was absolutely painful.
Sir, today every country has a national anthem. Did they have national anthems 3000 years ago?