The Answer Machine (1964)

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-29332017358072860322007-05-23T03:16:00.000-04:002007-07-11T03:23:20.012-04:002007-07-11T03:23:20.012-04:00The Answer Machine (1964)<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RlOCSRHT_mI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/cFEsDl0r3bU/s1600-h/Answer+Machine+spread+paleofuture.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RlOCSRHT_mI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/cFEsDl0r3bU/s400/Answer+Machine+spread+paleofuture.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067537256065269346" /></a> <a href="http://www.violetglaze.com/">Violet Gaze</a> sent in these great images from the 1964/1971 book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HUYOM8?ie=UTF8&tag=paleofuture-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000HUYOM8">Childcraft Vol. 6 How Things Change</a>. The paleo-future view of education was exceptionally accurate compared to a lot of other predictions. The <a href="http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/04/homework-in-future-1981.html">homework machine</a> envisioned in 1981 was big, but not altogether wrong. My favorite element of this two-page spread is the fact that the girl has a hyper-futuristic "answer machine" and yet still uses a typewriter. See also: <a href="http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/homework-in-future-1981.html" target="_blank">Homework in the Future (1981)</a> <a href="http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/03/road-ahead-future-classroom-1995.html" target="_blank">The Road Ahead: Future Classroom (1995)</a> <a href="http://www.paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/05/closer-than-we-think-1958-1963.html" target="_blank">Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)</a> <a href="http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/connections-at-vision-of-future-part-7.html" target="_blank">Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future (Part 7, 1993)</a> <a href="http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/05/project-2000-apple-computer-1988.html" target="_blank">Project 2000 - Apple Computer (1988)</a>Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416matt@paleofuture.com