[Julius] Molnar, the Picturephone's primary champion, believe do hat by the year 2000, "Picturephone will be the primary mode by which people will be communicating with one another."Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (New York: Penguin, 2012), p. 236 (quoting a talk from 1971)
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
This tech prediction didn't pan out
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