Hugo Gernsback published serious tech magazines filled with far-out ideas.
Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the case of the office “isolator” pictured above, simply too weird for any time. Born in Luxembourg in 1884, Gernsback moved to the U.S.
But if I’m sitting across from someone who doesn’t flinch at the sound of a surprise gunshot nearby, I’m not sure I’m going to think that’s a normal person I’d like to spend the rest of my life with. The Thought Recorder After the invention of the Audion, the tool in radio that allows for tremendous amplification of radio waves, Gernsback imagined it could be used to record a person’s thoughts.
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