Some fifty years ago a new airline got, as an early bit of their equipment, something called a Xerox machine. It was put to good use, providing new staff with a lot of information - even how to work the coffee percolator !
We were able to use this machine and trusted to do so. For me this meant a fifty mile drive. After a bit it was possible to obtain COLOR copies from a place near Waterloo Station, even if rather expensively.
Now it is difficult to buy an inexpensive home printer WITHOUT the ability to make colour prints.
It's called progress.
C.H.Jackson of B.O.A.C. gave a R.Ae.S. Lecture in which he showed that Scientists expected progress in their field a certain rate. Technologists expected that to be twice as fast. Science Fiction was faster again. But Fact, what HAD been achieved was even faster.
Think of Communications, Computers, Space, Health, Nuclear, Transport...
How might a Transporter room,shrunk down ( to be called an "Imove" (?), because it is pocketable), alter everybodies Lives...?
And WHEN and WHERE can I get one ?
Last edited by Linktrained; 18th June 2013 at 15:03.