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Hello Everyone,
Being a gadget geek, I love to browse this blogue about "Paleofuturology", where past visions of the future are posted, like a video of life in 1999 as seen from 1967, or drawings of space crafts from 1950's science books, etc.
Today, there is a page about a 1939 Vogue article showing a model, who according to designer Gilbert Rhode, is the man of the 21st Century. He wears a turtleneck-collard shirt, collar-length beatles-style hair, covering the ears, a mustache, and a goatie.
In the 1920's until the sixties, long hair on men was extremely rare, and virtually inexistant. It was taboo to talk about it, back then.
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
Everyone today is wearing an antenna.
Fortunately, it's a good deal smaller than the one depicted in the 1939 photo (;-)
Interesting link - thanks!
Ed
That is because antenna length is related to wavelength, and in 1939 components that would handle the shorter wavelengths used by cell phones and WiFi did not exist. Also, the concept of cellular communications systems would not come along until about fifty years later, and without such, signals had to use longer wavelengths to propagate to wherever they were to actually be received.
If you were to propose a two inch long antenna to someone in 1939, he'd reply, "How could you build circuits that would process signals of such a short wavelength, and if you did, they wouldn't go very far, so who would be in range?
DIGITAL transmissions, on the other hand, are not a new concept at all. Your man of 1939 would need to accessorize his outfit with a Morse code key to send them.
Bill
to predict the future today I would say soon those Antennae will be implanted and we son't have to hold phones to our ear anymore.
In otherwords we'll all be connected to the hive soon and tracked via GPS.
It's progress you know.
Kevin
Oh I love various representations of what people thought the future would be like.
It's really fascinatin--especially from an artistic viewpoint.
Thanks
n/t
Stuff like this is always to myself so neat! Perhaps another Jules Verne type of his day. Thanks for sharing this.