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"I can remember when the first pulsars were discovered. I was able to go and sit down and listen to graduate students talking about what their theories, to explain what pulsars really were."
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Not only does the author predict precisely the appearance of a modern-day Zoom call with hundreds of participants, he also predicts problems with it.
This short quote provides the full name:
The telephonoscope from Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century), an 1882 novel by Albert Robida, also had some Zoom conferencing capabilities:
"My wife is visiting her aunt in Buda-Pest, my eldest daughter studies at the dental institute in Melbourne, my youngest is a mining engineer in the Urals, my son breeds ostriches in Batavia, my nephew is at his plantations in Batavia, but that doesn't stop us from celebrating Christmas together through the telephonoscope.
As a one-to-many system, compare to the Mirror Grid Multiple-View Surveillance Panel from Wandl, the Invader (1932) by Ray Cummings and the Multi-View Surveillance Display from This Moment of Storm (1966) by Roger Zelazny.
See also the virtual assembly from If The Sun Died (1931) by R.F. Starzl.
As a videocalling system, compare to the detailed article about the telephonoscope from Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) (1882) by Albert Robida, the phonotelephote from In the Year 2889 (1889) by Jules Verne, the
telephot from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback, the
video communicator from The Machine Stops (1909) by E.M. Forster, the
videophone from The Golden Girl of Munan (1928) by Harl Vincent, the
optophone from Too Many Boards! (1931) by Harl Vincent and the opti-phone from The Impossible World (1939) by Eando Binder. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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