the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny st
starting to pop up in the mid 1980s, the customers were people who had a business reason for having these things. or some super-rich dude who just wanted to show off. the big breakthrough idea was the idea of cellular systems. it s called cellular because your car phone is tied into different radio transmitters, each one called a cell. as you travel, the signal from your phone travels from cell to cell. this was something that had never been done before. if you don t have one now, you probably will have one in a decade, say the phonemakers, as the price comes down into the range of other high-tech toys. there were people who understood even in the early days that being trapped in a car was not freedom. people are fundamentally, naturally mobile. i like to say the technology will go from a phone in the car to a phone in the briefcase to finally a phone in your pocket. and this is it. this is a portable cellular phone. you ll be able to take this to any american city and call
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and turn into a necessity. i do robotics. that company failed. i believe that if you can envision science-fiction, and do it, of course we can have robots running around the house. why is going to buy this? one of the problems, the engineering mentality, we build it because we can. some items have more functions than you might dream, like the margrave of and covers tv security system. eventually they invented bike waves to get you out of the kitchen and now you don t have to leave. first in dash portable car video system. the big picture is frustrating, and exhilarating for him to watch the way technologies evolve. there is a memo pad and it would beep to tell us what s going on. we will hang around a television. almost nobody can say we are going to take technology to this point.
a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now, but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny stereo cassette players with featherweight headphones. it s like carrying your stereo with you, you know, on your head. the walkman took listening to