There have been a couple of threads recently pondering the future with or without electrical vehicles.
Perhaps, one could consider the advances in phone technology over the past 30 years ... wonder what the next 30 years in automotive/electrical vehicle technology might bring.
Cheers - John
Dougwe said
11:21 AM Apr 14, 2019
Bugga me, knock me down with a feather and all that stuff.
I had one of those phones in the top pic many moons ago when under the leadership of Geronimo and I have one of those in the bottom pic now while under my own leadership.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
Possum3 said
11:36 AM Apr 14, 2019
My first Uniden phone had to be located in car with a module the size of a suitcase bolted into the boot, 1 metre aerial was attached to rear of vehicle.
Whenarewethere said
02:38 PM Apr 14, 2019
I had a built in car phone, wonderfully clear conversations for both parties back in those days.
Peter_n_Margaret said
05:59 PM Apr 14, 2019
Consider also the KODAK story.
1975 The digital camera was invented (by a Kodak employee).
I saw one at the Sony R&D facility in 1982. It was based on a 35mm SLR and it could store 8 pictures on a piece of magnetic tape.
1982 Kodak employed 60,400 people.
1986 Nikon first started selling a digital SLR camera.
1996 digital cameras were common.
2006 digital cameras dominated photography. From first sale to total domination took just 20 years.
2012 Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Employment dropped to 2,500.
Cheers,
Peter
elliemike said
06:05 PM Apr 14, 2019
In 1949 or 50 in our street in Liverpool UK, we had a chance to see "Television" for the first time.
The new very tall Transmission Mast at Sutton Coalfield was able to transmit as far north as us. Using a very high mast a neighbour (A Radio tech. and newly trained TV Technician) was able to set up a demonstration viewing for all the neighbours.
I overheard a group of the older men my dad and uncles included talking about what they had just seen.
My 50 year old Uncle Gerry was heard to say.
"I cant see that taking off" how wrong, he was.
In 1953 my Uncle Gerry purchased the first TV in our street.
-- Edited by elliemike on Sunday 14th of April 2019 06:11:17 PM
Tony Bev said
12:49 AM Apr 16, 2019
Yes the telephone came along in leaps and bounds, in the last thirty odd years
A snip from Wikipedia, explaing the workings of my first telephone
As a seven year old, with more string than sense
Before the invention of the electromagnetic telephone, there were mechanical acoustic devices for transmitting spoken words and music over a distance greater than that of normal speech. The very earliest mechanical telephones were based on sound transmission through pipes or other physical media, and among the very earliest experiments were those conducted by the British physicist and polymath Robert Hooke from 1664 to 1685. From 1664 to 1665 Hooke experimented with sound transmission through a taut distended wire. An acoustic string phone is attributed to him as early as 1667
Whenarewethere said
07:47 AM Apr 16, 2019
Tony Bev wrote:
Sound transmission through a taut distended wire. An acoustic string phone is attributed to him as early as 1667
Our landline had similar performance!
They have been upgrading the copper wire in our street...... to copper wire!
We dumped our landline as is was about a 1/30 the speed of the mobile & we are only 1km from the exchange. Even my 2007 computer gets about 2/3 of the speed below via my mobile's hotspot, at its worst in the evening about 45Mbps download. We are not big users of data so why throw away money using the NBN.
Gday...
There have been a couple of threads recently pondering the future with or without electrical vehicles.
Perhaps, one could consider the advances in phone technology over the past 30 years ... wonder what the next 30 years in automotive/electrical vehicle technology might bring.
Cheers - John
I had one of those phones in the top pic many moons ago when under the leadership of Geronimo and I have one of those in the bottom pic now while under my own leadership.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
I had a built in car phone, wonderfully clear conversations for both parties back in those days.
1975 The digital camera was invented (by a Kodak employee).
I saw one at the Sony R&D facility in 1982. It was based on a 35mm SLR and it could store 8 pictures on a piece of magnetic tape.
1982 Kodak employed 60,400 people.
1986 Nikon first started selling a digital SLR camera.
1996 digital cameras were common.
2006 digital cameras dominated photography. From first sale to total domination took just 20 years.
2012 Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Employment dropped to 2,500.
Cheers,
Peter
In 1949 or 50 in our street in Liverpool UK, we had a chance to see "Television" for the first time.
The new very tall Transmission Mast at Sutton Coalfield was able to transmit as far north as us. Using a very high mast a neighbour (A Radio tech. and newly trained TV Technician) was able to set up a demonstration viewing for all the neighbours.
I overheard a group of the older men my dad and uncles included talking about what they had just seen.
My 50 year old Uncle Gerry was heard to say.
"I cant see that taking off" how wrong, he was.
In 1953 my Uncle Gerry purchased the first TV in our street.
-- Edited by elliemike on Sunday 14th of April 2019 06:11:17 PM
Yes the telephone came along in leaps and bounds, in the last thirty odd years
As a seven year old, with more string than sense 
A snip from Wikipedia, explaing the workings of my first telephone
Our landline had similar performance!
They have been upgrading the copper wire in our street...... to copper wire!
We dumped our landline as is was about a 1/30 the speed of the mobile & we are only 1km from the exchange. Even my 2007 computer gets about 2/3 of the speed below via my mobile's hotspot, at its worst in the evening about 45Mbps download. We are not big users of data so why throw away money using the NBN.