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"Yesterday's [Whiskey] Ads Predicted Today's Tech"

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  1. 4re Nut

    4re Nut F1 World Champ

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    link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/187546/yesterdays_ads_predicted_todays_tech.html

    snippet: "Back in the mid-1940s, Seagram's advertised its VO Canadian whiskey with a series of extremely manly magazine ads about "Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow" -- unspecified futuristic thinkers who liked the fact that Seagram's was patient enough to age VO for six years. No, it doesn't make much sense to me, either. But the ads, each of which depicted a different miracle that would transform postwar America, are glorious. They're entertaining when they sort-of-accurately predict scenarios that eventually came to be, such as the rise of the cell phone. And they're even more so when they marvel at wonders-to-be such as coin-operated streetcorner fax machines. Herewith, some highlights as they appeared in LIFE magazine..."
     
  2. robert_c

    robert_c F1 Rookie

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    Very cool.
     

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