Article 40D55 Facebook's Portal Is the Jetsons Videophone That We Thought Humanity Skipped

Facebook's Portal Is the Jetsons Videophone That We Thought Humanity Skipped

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Matt Novak on Paleofuture, shared by Andrew Couts
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Facebook announced its new Portal hardware today, a limited-purpose device that allows users to video chat on Facebook almost exclusively. And there's something strangely retro about the concept: This is the standalone videophone device that George Jetson had in the 1960s and that AT&T imagined in the 1990s-the device"

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