Consider the first electronic chalk board. Designed by Bell Labs in 1970s for use at schools across the world on a rental basis of $200-$450 per month. They were disallowed to deploy this technology because of descent decrees from 1956. This is the future that might have been.pic.twitter.com/Gxwsc8byoj
Paul, thank you. I really appreciate it. It was so many things. It would have changed so much decades earlier.
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Paul, yes! And get this. The technologies were being made to go over the TV monitors so your fingers could draw and select things in the screen—in 1971. It fully worked. They were barred from developing it as it violated the laws and rules they were held back with.
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