Fun Friday Resources

To celebrate having the ebook/Kindle version of Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy available for a week now, have a couple of photos of earlier predictions of what such a thing might look like.

From 1935, Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine, we have a Rube Goldberg contraption:

Our forebears were turned on by complexity, I think.

From 1959, Chicago Tribune:

And here’s Microsoft taking a swing at the topic in 1999 in an ad campaign:

At least MicroSoft had a grip on the actual possibilities in technological terms, but not even they nailed the fact that none of us are currently using their clunky typewriters. We just read Moby-Dick on our phones — thanks, Steve Jobs!

You can also read Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy on your phone. Or computer. Or your Kindle.