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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's pretty spot on, I'm especially impressed by the "every hour" news, which has absolutely been a thing for news casts for a while now.
I wonder how he would have responded to the ability for instant news? And every hour becoming kind of old fashioned.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Right! I think the only thing they missed is airplanes just not being necessary for delivery (unless you count in-flight wi-fi). And the grammaphone was just leapfrogged; the first news radio broadcast was only 7 years after this cartoon

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

We do have small aircraft (drones) being used for deliveries now though, so not completely wrong

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

And the grammaphone was just leapfrogged; the first news radio broadcast was only 7 years after this cartoon

These phone services were the current tech when the strip was printed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_newspaper

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 39 points 4 months ago

They didn’t predict newspapers will contain so many ads it’s almost unusable.

Also, each newspaper is distributed by individual articles, so each article has to be low quality bait.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have to use one hand for my phone while eating, look what they took from us 😭

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Your phone can do text to speech. And it can play radio.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

Counterpoint: Podcasts

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago

And a happy future today to you too:-)

[–] scifun@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The tiny newspaper is littered with advertisements that you gotta block by wearing these specially glasses.