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1963 article talking about the future of mobile phones goes viral, netizens react
Smartphones have become a huge part of our lives, but have you ever wondered what did people think of it when the phones were still being developed? Take a look inside.
In today's era, many of us cannot imagine our lives without smartphones. We not only use them to make calls or send messages, but our phones have to carry many more important things from our daily lives. However, when smartphones were still being developed, it almost seemed like a distant dream. Recently, an article published in Mansfield News Journal from 1963 has gone viral on the internet for showing what people thought of smartphones at that time.
"You'll be able to carry phone in pocket in future," read the article's headline. The article further explains that the phone is a "laboratory development which is workable. One can make and answer calls where ever they be." The article also informed that other phone technology includes kitchen loud-speaking telephones and visual image telephones.
Take a look at the article here:
This article was shared on January 23 by Twitter user @fasc1nate. Since being uploaded online, it has been liked 88,000 times and has received several comments.
Take a look at some of the reactions below:
One person in the Twitter comments section wrote, "That is so awesome, to see what people were thinking then." A second person added, "In the 1960s, my father took me to the National Geographic Society museum in D.C. The only thing I remember seeing is a display about how in the future we'd be able to see the person we were talking to on the phone." "Interesting, in another 60 years we look forward to even more support from technological advances. May the future generations find it a lot easier to do good," said a third.
