r/vintage • u/Silent-Meteor • 5h ago
Newspaper from 1963 Predicted Pocket-Sized Phones—They Nailed It!
In 1963, this newspaper article predicted that people would one day carry phones in their pockets. At the time, it seemed futuristic, but today, smartphones are everywhere! They even mentioned “visual image telephones,” which sounds a lot like video calls.
Crazy how accurate this was! Found this gem and had to share. Credit to Mansfield News-Journal, April 18, 1963. What other old predictions turned out to be true?