Who needs Nostradamus' riddles? Even Whiskey Ads...

Who needs Nostradamus’ riddles? We have predictions from advertisers in full color prints from the 40s. See this pic from a Canadian magazine advertorial in February 1946. From left, clockwise: A golfer uses a mobile phone that looks uncannily like an early Motorola brick, a businessman dictates into his auto-voice-recognition-printer, a road warrior takes advantage of a street-corner fax machine, and someone checks a message courtesy of the answering feature built into his phone. Not all of this came true, but some of it did. Come to think of it, speech-to-text voicemail conversion is one of Google Voice’s killer features, and it only took sixty-three years for it to get here. Author: @harrymccracken More predictions & funny ads at “Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow!”