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  • Crossing a telephone with a TV set

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    What do you get when you cross a telephone with a TV set? That’s what Western Electric was asking in 1968 with this advertisement for its Picturephone. Western Electric is crossing a telephone with a TV set. What you’ll use is called, simply enough, a Picturephone set. Someday it will let you see who you…

  • The great escape

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    Peeking at life, three inches from the screen. It’s the possibility that it may show us something captivating that keeps our eyeballs alive. Even with robotic intervention, we’re glued to that rectangular glow. There’s enough variety in the repetition to keep us hooked. But what happens when we willfully want to get away? We struggle…