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How Did They Know? #16241276 07/10/21
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OP sportingspecialist Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 7,306	This article appeared in the Tacoma News Tribune on April 11, 1953. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

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Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241278 07/10/21
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simonkenton7 Campfire Outfitter S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 14,160 Marshall NC	A prophet. Now, we see, the Iphone has taken over our country. I am a Luddite but I hate Iphones and they do more harm than good.

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241289 07/10/21
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chlinstructor Campfire Kahuna Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 69,143 TX	Remember when Dick Tracy had the little wrist watch phone ? "Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!" ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241312 07/10/21
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dale06 Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 11,748 Minnesota	I remember my dad saying back in the 60s, “some day you will be able to see the person you are talking to on the phone” NRA Patron

Re: How Did They Know? chlinstructor #16241333 07/10/21
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Rock Chuck Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 69,249 Filer, ID	Originally Posted by chlinstructor Remember when Dick Tracy had the little wrist watch phone ? Yup, and whenever he used it, we got the little caption '2 way wrist radio'. I liked the 1 man magnetic air cars. I could think of thousands of uses for one of those. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.

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Re: How Did They Know? dale06 #16241340 07/10/21
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The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,448 USA	Yeah, but predictions about smellovision replacing television never came to fruition.

Re: How Did They Know? The_Real_Hawkeye #16241372 07/10/21
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NH K9 Campfire Outfitter N Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 10,786 New Hampshire	Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye Yeah, but predictions about smellovision replacing television never came to fruition. With the popularity of shows like Dr. Pimple Popper, etc that may not be a bad thing. �Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.�

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241375 07/10/21
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old_boots Campfire Regular O Joined: Jan 2021 Posts: 1,034 Yew Nork	Saw that as a wall phone with a screen at the 1964 World's Fair...

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241451 07/10/21
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prplbkrr Campfire Regular P Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 1,187 Wisc. Edge of the Driftless Ar...	Where's my 9uckin' jet pack? prplbkrr = Purple Biker Can't score goals if all you do is pass.

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241465 07/10/21
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logger Campfire Tracker L Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 4,568 Southern Oregon	I wonder if he forecast robocalls?

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Re: How Did They Know? prplbkrr #16241467 07/10/21
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The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,448 USA	Originally Posted by prplbkrr Where's my 9uckin' jet pack? LOL. I was about to post that one, too.

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241471 07/10/21
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kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana K Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,599 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas	Dick Tracy calling Go Go Gomez!!! Dick Tracy calling Go Go Gomez!! Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester "Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored." WS

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241479 07/10/21
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Heym06 Campfire Tracker H Joined: Nov 2015 Posts: 5,584 Orygun	Maxwell Smart had his in his shoe! Generation after Dick Tracy, who would have thunk it!

Re: How Did They Know? Heym06 #16241493 07/10/21
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chlinstructor Campfire Kahuna Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 69,143 TX	Originally Posted by Heym06 Maxwell Smart had his in his shoe! Generation after Dick Tracy, who would have thunk it! Yep. I’d forgotten about that. "Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!" ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241494 07/10/21
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22250rem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 10,484 Western NY State	I forgot when I first heard about cell phones, but it was a long time ago. I'm old enough to recall, as a kid in the ( late ? ) 1950's, folks walking around with an actual working radio that could fit in their shirt pocket. That transistor technology was mind blowing back then and there were all kinds of futuristic predictions being made.

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241503 07/10/21
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Quartermaster Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 631 upstate NY	As handy as this modern technology is, a big part of me wishes that it hasn’t advanced so far. Our privacy is seriously gone. NRA Life Member "You might as well be wrong, as be right and not know it"

Re: How Did They Know? 22250rem #16241511 07/10/21
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The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,448 USA	Originally Posted by 22250rem I forgot when I first heard about cell phones, but it was a long time ago. I'm old enough to recall, as a kid in the ( late ? ) 1950's, folks walking around with an actual working radio that could fit in their shirt pocket. That transistor technology was mind blowing back then and there were all kinds of futuristic predictions being made. When I was a teenager, my folks got cell phones, but back then a cell phone was something you had installed into your car, not something you carried around. They gradually transitioned from that to hand held phones about the size of a typical home telephone that you clipped on your belt to carry it around. Then came the flip phones you could put in your pocket. Smart phones made them obsolete.

Re: How Did They Know? Rock Chuck #16241513 07/10/21
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Whiptail Campfire Tracker Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 3,839 Austin, TX	Originally Posted by Rock Chuck Originally Posted by chlinstructor Remember when Dick Tracy had the little wrist watch phone ? Yup, and whenever he used it, we got the little caption '2 way wrist radio'. I liked the 1 man magnetic air cars. I could think of thousands of uses for one of those. I worked on the Motorola Microtac flip phone and the internal name was "the dick phone" after Dick Tracy's. Management didn't like the name and renamed it "Rich". Quando omni flunkus moritati

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241590 07/10/21
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flintlocke Campfire Outfitter F Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 9,055 Siskiyou Co.,Jefferson State	Apparently George Orwell somehow "knew"...or maybe he just thought the 4.2 million people in gulags after the war was a harbinger. Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.

Re: How Did They Know? sportingspecialist #16241606 07/10/21
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cra1948 Campfire Outfitter C Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 10,775 The Palmetto State	I just got an app on my phone that will identify a bird by its sound. It's from Cornell University and it's free. It's called Merlin. It works. So far I've tried it on birds I knew around the house, Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, Carolina Chickadee and Coopers Hawk. This kind of stuff just leaves me shaking my head. Mathew 22: 37-39

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