Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Miniaturization
Paying attention to old stuff can be informative. I enjoy the pictures posted by Retro-Space on Flickr. Lots of fine '60s babes and cool '60s advertising. But he caught me off guard with this picture from some kind of tabloid magazine in 1962. Clearly the electrical gadget in the drawing was meant to be a horrible and unimaginable torture machine.
Nowadays we've miniaturized both the electrical device and our moral sense.
Recognize the device? It's perfectly familiar, used daily by our cops. Taser. ¶ 9:19 AM
Nowadays we've miniaturized both the electrical device and our moral sense.
Recognize the device? It's perfectly familiar, used daily by our cops. Taser. ¶ 9:19 AM
