Friday, January 13, 2012
BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true. Also, I show you COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS of CARS and TRAINS on a DORINCARD / MAXICARD with the "Use Public Transportation" stamp of the GO GREEN series of USPS
BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true
A scan of the original article can be found online
BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true
10 predictions that Watkins got right...
"1. Digital colour photography
Watkins did not, of course, use the word "digital" or spell out precisely how digital cameras and computers would work, but he accurately predicted how people would come to use new photographic technology.
A scan of the original article can be found online"Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later.... photographs will reproduce all of nature's colours."
This showed major foresight, says Mr Nilsson. When Watkins was making his predictions, it would have taken a week for a picture of something happening in China to make its way into Western papers.
People thought photography itself was a miracle, and colour photography was very experimental, he says.
"The idea of having cameras gathering information from opposite ends of the world and transmitting them - he wasn't just taking a present technology and then looking to the next step, it was far beyond what anyone was saying at the time."
Patrick Tucker from the World Future Society, based in Maryland in the US, thinks Watkins might even be hinting at a much bigger future breakthrough.
"'Photographs will be telegraphed' reads strikingly like how we access information from the web," says Mr Tucker."
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and four he didn't:
"3. No more cars in large cities
"All hurry traffic will be below or above ground when brought within city limits."
However, many cities do have pedestrian zones in their historic centres. And he correctly forecast elevated roads and subways."
BBC News - Ten 100-year predictions that came true
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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!
Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (wait until Beth posts the today's Linky tool for the meme, then make your entry, if you want to join).
Thursday, January 12, 2012
"Eat well. Live fresh." (No, it's not a typo). My non-traditional (coz it's made with a magazine ad instead of a regular postcard) MAXICARD /DORINCARD with a "Buy local produce" stamp of the GO GREEN series from USA
Do you see a heart shape above?
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No?
Aw, come on!
You can get two heart shapes if you cut it in two. No?
Please visit: http://clytie-randomhearts.blogspot.com/
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
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Some feedback received about me and my blog here
[DORIN'S NOTE: There are over 100 million websites.]
"There are 1,699,250 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Dorincard.blogspot.com.
About 43% of visitors to the site come from France, where it has attained a traffic rank of 152,077.
About 80% of visits to the site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces).
Dorincard.blogspot.com's visitors view an average of 1.5 unique pages per day.
Visitors to the site spend roughly two minutes on each pageview and a total of three minutes on the site during each visit."
- Maximum Delight
- Feb 21, 2011
Postcards and stamps, mainly featuring mammals and birds but Dorincard also has other creations
and interests he likes to share.
His enthusiasm for Maximum cards (a postcard and a similar themed stamps sent through the
postal system) shines through.
He shows how he gets the right card, stamp and postmark together.
Visiting his site you will also learn things about the natural world told with a dry sense of humour,
possibly with a play on words, and a unique style of headings.
Topical and informative both for the enthusiast and casual visitor.
1,699,251
152,077Wedding gifts from Zazzle
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