[GreenKeys] Ebay Listing

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Mon Jun 22 16:29:09 EDT 2015



On 6/22/2015 12:03 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>> archive of popular technical magazines of the 1930s, especially the
>> Hugo Gernsback ones, they have a section predicting the world in 25
>> or fifty
>
> I have a scan of the October 1922 Gernsback magazine Radio News. The
> front cover shows some guys out camping along with some machinery that
> has antennas on it and food coming out.  The caption is "Receiving Lunch
> by Radio - 50 Years Hence"
>
> Of course this is perfectly accurate; it's just the details that are
> wrong.  Instead of your lunch coming through the air waves, you pick up
> your handheld transceiver and order a pizza delivered to your camp site.
>
>
     Via drone.   Soon, I think.

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL



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