Following in the footsteps of Charles and Ray Eames fascinating look at the future at the 1964 World’s Fair, cartoonist Rube Goldberg further envisioned the prospect of screen culture years later in 1967.
What he didn’t foresee was that all of these individual devices (TV, phone, radio, camera, etc.) would converge into a single device: the smartphone.
Today’s obsession with multi-screen entertainment and multitasking behavior was only a matter of time. Screens are second nature, as people prefer to be distracted all the time to make the outside world easier to cope with.
Meanwhile, electricity is still providing the pipes.