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Picturephone

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Picturephone

The proposed video/telephone introduced by AT&T at the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Many thought it would flourish by the end of the 1980s. Real time video is expected to be widely used in the 21st century.



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The airline Kubrick envisioned running the lunar shuttle, Pan Am, has more or less gone the way of the dinosaurs, and the Bell Picturephone a scientist used to ring up his daughter is a gadget most consumers have decided really isn't worth it.
We spent a lot of money and we couldn't come up with any market," said Noll, a bitter critic of AT&T's picturephone comeback.
Video Conferencing Specialist PicturePhone Direct to Feature Codian Exclusively for Video Conferencing Infrastructure Products
 
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