The Speculist » Past Futures https://blog.speculist.com Live to see it. Thu, 25 Jul 2019 23:07:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Meet the Kindle… https://blog.speculist.com/past-futures/meet-the-kindle.html https://blog.speculist.com/past-futures/meet-the-kindle.html#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:56:45 +0000 Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/?p=3393 …or Nook, as pictured in 1935.

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Well, they certainly went to a lot of trouble. It’s too bad they attempted only to capture the book-reading capability. Imagine what a 1935-version of a Kindle Fire would look like — even a scaled-down one that could simply show movies and play music in addition to enabling you to read books. The thing would have taken up a whole room. (Or possibly house.)

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