The Future of Email at a Payphone

A traveling executive receives messages from his office electronic mail system by means of a hand-held computer and modem at a public telephone. (Courtesy of RCA)

A traveling executive in a suit uses a handheld computer and modem at a public telephone to receive office email. The joke is the dramatic contrast between this vintage vision of futuristic mobile technology and the ordinary, cumbersome equipment people now associate with early computing. It is shared as a reaction to outdated predictions about the future of technology.

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