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Great moments in predicting the future, television edition
by possibly noteworthy at 11:00 pm EST, Dec 29, 2007

From the New Yorker, July 14, 1951:

The most encouraging word we have so far had about television came from a grade-school principal we encountered the other afternoon.

"They say it's going to bring back vaudeville," he said, "but I think it's going to bring back the book."

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It's only a question of time, our principal felt, before the new literacy of the television audience reaches the point where whole books can be held up to the screen and all their pages slowly turned.

Anticipating the Kindle, I suppose. (Once it goes color, the Kindle may do well selling comic books.)


 
 
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