Or, in the case of the office isolator pictured above, simply too weird for any time.
That doesnt even include the sci-fi titles he started like Amazing Stories.
Theyre simply some of the most interesting old ideas for the future from a century ago.
Hugo Gernsback’s 1925 idea for the “Isolator,” an office invention that allowed workers to cut out distractions.Image: Science and Invention
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