TECH FOR THE GREATER GOOD
Jan 26, 2021
2 minutes
by BARRY BOYCE, FOUNDING EDITOR
In 1946, at the outset of the baby boom, readers of the “funnies”—what comic strips were often called back then—saw uber-cop Dick Tracy communicate for the first time with his squad using the “Two-Way Wrist Radio.” In the sixties, it became a wrist TV, and the cops communicated using an early form of FaceTime.
Like many children, I thought the wrist TV was super cool, and
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