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What The Future will Bring!

From SNOPES: Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in the early 1950s contemplated a “home computer” might look like (based on the technology of the day), it isn’t, as the accompanying text claims, a RAND Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype “home computer.” The picture is actually an entry submitted to a Fark.com image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found on the U.S. Navyweb site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to the left-hand side of the photo):


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  1. Not who you think, not that you really think anyway #
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    Banned again for offensive content on Facebook?

  2. theaveeditor #
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    Not banned just away, sorry Sighh .. the usual anonymous comment, presumably from Bill Quick. Use the Search bar to read more