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“The disc will be a telephone equipped for both audio and video service. In the future a telephone number will be given at birth to every baby. It will be his for life. When he wants to call anyone, he will merely push the buttons“—Harold Osborne @BellLabs, 1956https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1203114580890644480 …
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It was September 1958 Harold Osborne of @BellLabs & chief engineer of AT&T predicted the:
Smartphone: two sided screens, video calling, soothing ringtones.
He said:
“Some day you‘ll pick up the receiver of your dial-less phone and simply speak the number wanted”
He was right. pic.twitter.com/cAiSEJBvGZ
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