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A smart phone from 1984 (Patreon)

Published:

2019-08-14 09:50:58

Edited:

2019-08-15 09:08:13

Imported:

2021-02

Content

https://youtu.be/6QB0OinQkgA

Have you ever done that thought experiment where you can travel back in time but you can’t take anything with you. All you have is yourself and your memories, there’s no Sports Almanac in this story. How would you go about using your knowledge of the future for financial gain?

One idea might be to ‘invent’ something before it was due to come out, of course if you did this you’d also be restricted to utilising whatever technology existed at that point in history. So for example you couldn't sell a word processor to Shakespeare.

But sticking with this idea, if you travelled back in time to the early 1980s and decided to make a Smartphone, what would it look like? Well it might look a lot like the STC Executel.

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UPDATE: This won’t make sense if you read it before the video, but yes the company who answered the phone at the end *were* the previous owners.

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A smart phone from 1984 - The STC Executel

1984's smartest phone - The STC 3910 Executel. A desktop information device that looks straight out of Blade Runner. Futuristic in concept, yet very much a product of its time. Binary Dinosaurs pages on the STC Executel http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/STC/executelRoadtrip.php http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/STC/ UPDATE IT TURNS OUT MY PHONE *WAS* ONCE THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY I RANG AT THE END OF THE VIDEO (H&S) ---------------SUBSCRIBE------------------ http://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan?sub_confirmation=1 -------------Merchandise----------------- https://teespring.com/stores/techmoan-merch -------------SUPPORT--------------- This channel can be supported through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/techmoan *******Patrons usually have early access to videos******* ----------Outro Music----------- Over Time - Vibe Tracks https://youtu.be/VSSswVZSgJw ------Outro Sound Effect------ ThatSFXGuy - https://youtu.be/5M3-ZV5-QDM