Ross: Can we handle the future? February 24, 2021 at 10:04 am Tim Heywood Lonsdale, in his Corn Exchange office, talking to Robert Thom, who is in his office in East Cheap, via video-phone, London, June 23, 1964. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) I noticed that Google just announced a new set of features for its smart phones, including a password checkup tool, plus a way to schedule your texts so you can text now and send later, and a better screen reader! And as I was reading all this for no particular reason, I suddenly flashed back to when my grandma took me to the 1964 New York World’s Fair and we saw … the Picturephone.