I just wish this guy didn't look like he was pouring over a copy of
Maxim. It's unhealthy.
  It was radio that caught Gernsback’s particular
fancy. He was a true evangelist of the new medium and imagined that
it would not only conquer the living room, but the world. Factories,
offices, and warfare would take the great radio leap forward.
Even
roller skates would be become radio roller skates or someone would
have to answer for it. The pages of his magazines were a
combination of plans to help the amateur to build his own radio sets
and articles extolling the radio as a cornucopia of promised wonders.
The
great thing about Gernsback's radio magazines is that they are so
inspirational to us all. Looking on the faces of the earnest
young men as they hover over their breadboard circuitry, we can go
forward, secure in the knowledge that our grandfathers were just as
big a bunch of geeks as any of today's computer programmers. |
