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Sci-fi predicting inventions

anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
"Pam McCaughey" <[hidden email]> wrote (Subject: Re: Conflict episode)

> UFO predicted cordless and cell phones, video conferencing, desktop computers, etc.

I saw a Thunderbirds episode that seemed to predict videotape (there called
"magnetic film").
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Re: Sci-fi predicting inventions

Marc Martin
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Anthony writes:
>I saw a Thunderbirds episode that seemed to predict videotape (there called
>"magnetic film").

I think if you do some research, you'll discover that videotape
existed before THUNDERBIRDS...

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Marc Martin, [hidden email]
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Re: Sci-fi predicting inventions

jamesgibbon
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"Anthony Appleyard" wrote:

>
> I saw a Thunderbirds episode that seemed to predict videotape (there called
> "magnetic film").
>

I'm pretty sure videotape had been invented by the mid 1960s
(though
not used domestically) - some please correct me if I'm wrong as
usual :)