[Air-L] the cell-less future
Greg Wise
Greg.Wise at asu.edu
Fri Jul 16 15:43:50 PDT 2010
Demolition Man was released in 1993. That same year AT&T released its promotional video, Connections: AT&T's vision of the future, which was a slice of life in 2013 (I think the video is up on line, a blog called Paleo-Futures had it all up, with analysis, a few years ago). Showed it in my class last year and everyone was commenting on the lack of cell phones there, too. Just not part of the popular imagination at the time, apparently.
Greg Wise
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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman [wellman at chass.utoronto.ca]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:04 PM
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Subject: [Air-L] the cell-less future
Demolition Man ran last nite, with Stallone, Snipes and Bullock.
But what got my attention was the abundance of public phones on poles and
the concomittant absence of mobile phones. In what is supposed to be 2032.
Barry Wellman
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