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Date Posted: 18:27:57 12/03/12 Mon
Author: bill
Author Host/IP: 71.172.168.248
Subject: Re: interesting fact to ponder
In reply to: Craig 's message, "Re: interesting fact to ponder" on 17:42:03 12/03/12 Mon

I don't think either Flash Gordon or Buck Rodgers used a wrist communicator or any other small portable communications device in the comics in the thirties but I may be wrong about that. Flash used a telepathic communications device that was more or less a large cabinet I think and buck rodgers which came after Flash probably did not use anything like that until after Dick Tracy did in the comics.

The most iconic of Dick Tracy’s kit though, was his wrist communicator, a device that started countless millions of technological dreams in a young American technology community which went on to create ubiquitous wireless communication. There would not have been one leader in the communications revolution who wasn’t touched by Dick Tracy’s videoconferencing wrist watch. The device arrived in 1946 with two-way audio, became video in 1964, and a wireless wrist-worn computer in 1987. Gould’s imagination deserves credit for helping to fuel the communications boom of the late 20th Century.

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