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I’ll be the first to admit that the anonymous gay sex app Grindr has been the butt of many jokes here on Slope. As the company’s stock thrust higher and higher with increasing force, the rally increased in both length and girth, attracting excited attention from all spectators. All good things must come to an end, however, so after an intense peak, the stock is now rapidly shrinking, having lost 40% of its size already and evidently on the way to an even smaller unit of measure.
The Director sent me this interesting clip of the last commercials that now-defunct airlines broadcast. What they seem to have in common is boring names based on direction (“Eastern“, “Western“, “Northwest“, et cetera) and too-good-to-be-true ticket deals (get First Class for the price of Coach). I’m old enough to remember all of these!
Futurists usually do a really embarrassing job predicting what the world is going to be like, but I’ve got to say, this fanciful cartoon from 1919 pretty much nailed it, as it toyed with what it would be like if phones could live in your pocket.
