The Glorious Future Of Radio (As Predicted In 1922)

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[@MaskedVengeanceTV]

This is just a 1920s equivalent of a person that works from home, lives in a Smart home, and owns a printer.

[@dawnreneegmail]

Been enamored with radio since a kid... so magical! Really enjoy any content you find not just on 'the stars' but as you've shared homes, pets, travel and the inventions that make the entertainment business ( and as shown with wireless signal just about every other aspect of life today) possible! That one panel illustration certainly was jam-packed with a story you nicely unfolded🤗. more please💁🏼‍♀️

[@scottlarson1548]

I love the globe covered in sockets that you plug your telephone into to make a phone call to whatever city you want in the world. Now that's an intuitive user interface!

[@ernestocampas-rosa6740]

at least it helps you learn geography

[@edie9330]

The roller skates I wore back in the mid sixties were strapped over shoes, ill fitting, and tightened with a key. I can't tell you how many times I was flying down the sidewalk and one would come off and I'd crash and burn. I can't even imagine going 15 to 20 mph!!! I don't think I would have survived it! Lol Also, remote controlled planes sound like drones. Love your channel. ❤️

[@jamesmiller4184]

Yeah! -- "Street skates." All steel rollers too, and gripping at the front and back + key-tightening. Left over from far earlier I think. I am cheered to know that you survived them and that are here to enjoy The1920'sChannel. (Matters could just as easily 'gone south!')

[@noth1ng5id]

I remember the ones they tried to make in the 80s. Only safer cause you couldn't go fast lol

[@Amfortas]

Such an underrated channel, I've only just noticed how free subscribers you have! Criminal!

[@jamesmiller4184]

One reason could be that subscribers do not like being ignored uniformly, and here it IS uniform. To my knowledge this guy (unnamed, not ever a first) has never answered to his subs' questions. Very bad form. I essentially abandoned him after learning of his uncaring arrogance.

[@Rushmore222]

Interesting how the term "television" was in common parlance in 1922, thirty years before becoming a ubiquitous household appliance.

[@Youdoyouyeah]

He was right about a lot of things. Except that it’s not radio, but the Internet and Satellite Comms! Beautiful.

[@maxlinder5262]

This is true .... WOW 😲!!!What would Hedy Lamarr think 🤔 mmmm!!!

[@timmmahhhh]

"HED-lee!" - Blazing Saddles 😁

[@Perktube1]

My name is Jim, but everybody calls me… Jim.

[@stevefaure415]

Impressive. The only part they really were wrong about is that this technology would bring ease and happiness. When was the last time you saw someone smiling while hunched over their iPhone?

[@klausgh]

I use the smartphone mostly to read books and listen to radio; so, actually the technology brings me a lot of ease and happiness! 🙂

[@noth1ng5id]

Cat videos 😂

[@yuin3320]

All the time actually. Except it's not an iphone. Where I'm from people are either too poor or too tech savvy for that

[@feralbluee]

this is such an interesting bit of human ingenuity. it always amazes me that ideas (and even methods) go so far back. In the latter half of the 1800’s, the basics of the computer were developed by a man and a woman (names escape me). mechanical people or automatons were also invented in the mid 19th century. i just love that you used “whom”. that is so cool :) 🐶

[@Zarkovision]

The wireless transportation of electricity like Tesla demonstrated has some practical side-effects which makes less useless. In the 1920s the only concern was that you can't make money with it, if you can pick up the electricity just from the air, and indeed laws were made to make it illegal. Now we call it "inductive electricity" and use it to charge mobile phones and other devices. It would indeed also work with cars, making huge batteries obsolete, and electric cars much cheaper and more economic than cars with a combustion engine. It was possible 100 years ago, people knew about it all the time, but it wasn't done, because there was no money in it...

[@Muonium1]

Um no, it's not being done because the inverse square law for radiating electromagnetic waves is a thing and power distribution over distances is GROSSLY inefficient to the point that if your phone is an inch away from the wireless charger it takes hours to charge instead of minutes. Also paving every street in the country with wireless charging coils for electric cars would probably cost more than the GDP of the planet and simply carrying a battery in the car is infinitely cheaper. These things aren't being done not because people are stingy moneygrubbers, but because laws of physics exist.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@Muonium1 Ah! Finally, a physicist!

[@highbrass7563]

I adore your channel

[@Muonium1]

Radio powered roller skates.... BECAUSE WHY NOT!!! lol One thing they indisputably got exactly right was that lady's absurdly ENORMOUS feathered Farrah Fawcett 70s hair.

[@edwarddowd9502]

Pretty darn close to what we have today!!!

[@jchapman8248]

This is amazing history. Today's contemporary communications technologies are laid out in detail, albeit in the nomenclature of that time. Today, facetime, wifi, faxing, smartphones, remote controlled smart homes are now the norm. Imagine how far along our society would be today, technologically speaking, if it weren't for WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War and other world wide armed conflagrations diverting our focus away from peaceful endeavors?

[@MrHowzaa]

we would be far behind since many of these technologies are developed for wartime. Nothing stimulates technology development like war does.

[@yuin3320]

As much as I'm against war, I have to say every conflict you listed has only seen our technological progress hasten. If not for the Cold War-induced space race, we quite potentially wouldn't have the internet today, or at the very best it would be in it's crude infancy

[@dave3657]

Change “radio” to “internet” and with exception of the controls they were spot on.

[@jaygreider4753]

If this is true, wow! I was radioman in the Navy in the '70s. Raised on ham radios.

[@srercrcr]

100 years hence and I can't even get a wired internet connection.

[@AmericanMinutemen]

That is very interesting. It was very prescient.

[@dr.skipkazarian5556]

To me.....the growth (exponentially) of aeronautical technology is one of the major impetuses of the development of many of the other discoveries, inventions, and innovations to follow. Just my opinion.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

A lot of what that article was predicting is happening to day in a different from.

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Thank you.

[@simonf8902]

Sounds like the internet to me.

[@owenritz1224]

Sounds wonderful! I can't wait. Now, what about flying cars?

[@jsizemo]

Helicopters?

[@owenritz1224]

@@jsizemo More like the Jetsons.

[@orbyfan]

We'll have them by 1970.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Love your intro, excellent. They had radio control in the 20s ??? Then why wasn't it used more in the 40s (WW2) ?

[@Muonium1]

Because it was all analog and still sucked for almost everything except listening to music.

[@Carl-Ernst-Otto-Kunze]

The lifes of others

[@KillerBebe]

It all came to pass

[@mah6183]

Took about 100 years, and yup.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

Gernsback!

[@jiminnorthdallas1227]

Most, if not all is Tesla tech.

[@AmericanMinutemen]

Do you know if Nikola Tesla was associated with that? I sudpect that much of it came from his notions.