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4/26/1955-Washington, DC- An advance look at the world of tomorrow, which American industry expects to help create, is contained in "People, Products and Progress: 1975," a slide film feature prepared by leading U.S. trade associations. When milady goes food shopping in 1975, there'll be no lengthy waiting at a check-out counter. The improvement, pictured here, will be an automatic computer that will price all the items as they pass under an electronic eye.
5 comments:
You and your stupid "future" fixation.
The pipe dreams, like the one pictured here, just served to raise peoples' hopes.
Then, when they failed to materialize, the world descended into the angry, divided one we inhabit.
I thin. . . . oh.
Never mind.
This is so bogus. Everyone knows that high collar suits and women with bob haircuts were out of style by 1975.
I know it's cheap and unfair to laugh at predictions of the future made several decades ago, but -- that thing is huge! Imagine if the scanners in grocery stores really were that size...
I don't want that darn contraption radiatin' my groceries!
Another living wage job gone and we were inconvenienced for close to two decades while this thing evolved. Can I get a "SKU check"!
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