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Computopia, a circa 1969 vision of the future from Japan

Pink Tentacle has found several great images of what a 1969 edition of the Japanese comic magazine Shonen Sunday called Computopia — a future in which computers will teach our children, perform surgeries, and infiltrate our lives in otherwise useful... Full Article at Boing Boing

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