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Laughingsquid unearths 1920's comic on the "pocket telephone"

https://laughingsquid.com/1920s-pocket-telephones-cartoon/

#smartphone #humor
Comic strip When We All have Pocket Telephones Shows all the inconvenient places it will ring First: When running for a train (ting, ting, ting) When your hands are full (in a train, with suitcase and cane and shopping) When it is raining (holding umbrella) "Yes yes Hullo Who Is It?" At a Concert (Ting Ting Ting! Shh! Sh -h-h!) When you are given a baby to hold "That bell is frightening the poor mite!" (ting ! ting!) When you are being married "Ting! Ting!"

A Prescient Comic Strip From the 1920s That Predicts the Inconvenience of 'Pocket Telephones'

A prescient comic strip by W.K. Haselden from 1923 predicted "pocket telephones" and the inconvenient times in which they would ring.
Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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"[...]a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."
-Frederik Pohl, 1968
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