>While this is a genuine newspaper clipping from 1953 containing a largely accurate prediction about modern phones, we’d like to provide a little additional context to this rumor. For starters, the person making these claims was the president of a phone company and was likely privy to latest developments in the field. For instance, while it wouldn’t be until the 1960s for the first cordless phone to be invented, and the 1980s for true mobile phones to hit the market, the foundations for these products were being laid prior to 1953.
It’s a cool prediction, but stripped back to its basics, it not surprising. Things get smaller and more portable, and telecommunications goal has always been to get as close to replicating the in-person experience as possible.
Mr. Sullivan knew his shit.
That would be downvoted if reddit was around then.
From snopes.com
>While this is a genuine newspaper clipping from 1953 containing a largely accurate prediction about modern phones, we’d like to provide a little additional context to this rumor. For starters, the person making these claims was the president of a phone company and was likely privy to latest developments in the field. For instance, while it wouldn’t be until the 1960s for the first cordless phone to be invented, and the 1980s for true mobile phones to hit the market, the foundations for these products were being laid prior to 1953.
I predict we gonna have flying cars one day (as soon as they figure out what to do when they break down in mid air)
Excellent!
It’s a cool prediction, but stripped back to its basics, it not surprising. Things get smaller and more portable, and telecommunications goal has always been to get as close to replicating the in-person experience as possible.
For every thousand bad predictions there’s a good one
Source From Tacoma News Tribune April 11, 1953
Doc Brown???
“ANSWER YOUR TELEPHONE!!”
That prediction is almost too on the nose….. fake?
Last year i went 4 monts without a phone.
It was nice.
Phone’s ringing, Dude!
Is Mark Sullivan still alive? I just want to get his take on what lottery tickets to buy, or what stocks to purchase…
He was wrong. Smartphones took over, not telephones.
Phones were popularized in the 1920s. This is a lame ass prediction.