Kyle Mathews
@kam
Reading a book on Bell Labs -- fascinating to see they launched a video telephone service (zoom but in a square box) all the way back in 1969 predicting it'd "lessen the need for in-person meetings". It flopped then but 50 years later zoom finally took the concept to mass market
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andric.eth
@andric
And going back a decade or more you can see the concept in science fiction books. In Asimov’s Naked Sun, it was futuristic for people to “view” each other as some kind of 3D holographic projection instead of “seeing” each other. It’s still futuristic today! We’re only at goggles VR, no 3D holographs yet
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Yeah that'd be slick, can't wait!
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