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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
And yet, we have the video-phone "televisers." It's interesting in early sci-fi that when reference is made to broadcasting images in this way, it is almost always for communication and not entertainment. I noticed it in HG Wells' "The Crystal Egg", which I also read recently.
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A very good point, it made me think of the 1990's when the commercials for the" Not yet seen, information highway " A little girl would tell us it was coming !" It was the internet of course, and one thought of it as informative. Not so much as entertainment. At least not then.