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Just as people were experimenting with the uses of broadcast TV in the 1930s, so too were they envisioning ways to utilize closed-circuit TV in the 1950s
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Give me your huddled masses yearning to go shopping and swimming
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The futurist design movement that divided critics and and swept the nation with space age coffee shops
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The spaghetti-slinging robot drew crowds at Grazie’s Italian Restaurant in Tokyo
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As cars got larger in the 1920s, the "Helicar" was presented as the solution to congested city streets
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Flying aboard aircraft? Just a passing fad
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Before it became known as the "idiot box," television was seen as the best hope for bringing enlightenment to the American people
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Americans in the 1940s had wondrous expectations about the post-war world. Meet one author who advised them to curb their enthusiasm
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Four "scientific" tests to determine whether your marriage will succeed or fail
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A 1989 prediction about portable GPS devices was right on the money
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Was LSD the Soviet Union's secret weapon?
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College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
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Are Angelenos destined to be perpetually surrounded by super-sized advertisements?
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A trip into space without leaving Earth--or even going outdoors
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More than 20 years before the iPad, an entrepreneur saw the potential of interactive, digital magazines
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In 1983, a Chinese fast-food restaurant hired a curious-looking pair of servers: Tanbo R-1 and Tanbo R-2
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Decades before the Internet, radio-delivered newspaper machines pioneered the business of electronic publishing.
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In the 1920s, a French inventor devised an ingenious way to provide emergency medical assistance
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