Human Brain Enthusiast
Without looking it up, reply with what year you think this TIME Magazine cover is from
Mar 15 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadHuman Brain EnthusiastMar 15

1965

The illustration is by Boris Artzybasheff who was a prolific artist, especially for commercial art.

Back when tech companies paid artists to make amazing artworks and didn't just steal their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Artzybasheff

Boris Artzybasheff - Wikipedia

Show threadBradley M. KühnMar 19

@thomasfuchs I saw this days later, so I guessed in my head as “the over on 1970” (I do everything like an odds-maker after so much #poker in my life), so I lost.

It does remind me of Edison's stock ticker and how it impacted Wall Street. I think you can draw a straight line from Edison's stock ticker to the 1929 crash. As you can draw a straight line from that Time magazine cover to today.

Show threaddasdomMar 15
@thomasfuchs 1950
Show threadCameron WattersMar 15
@thomasfuchs 1969?
Show threadLuzzy is bunnygirlMar 15
@thomasfuchs 1970
Show threadDaniel LakelandMar 15
@thomasfuchs
i think 1970-1975 range
Show threadzipkid - Breaker of SystemsMar 15
@thomasfuchs 1959
Show threadJernej Simončič �Mar 15
@thomasfuchs 70's?
Show threadJames T MonkeyMar 15
@thomasfuchs ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
Show threadAlan BucknamMar 15
@thomasfuchs 1971?
Show threadKarthikMar 15
@thomasfuchs has to be 80s, right?
Show threadKen McLeodMar 15
@thomasfuchs The computer is a giant cabinet with punch cards and tape drives instead of floppies, which dates this to '70s or earlier. The guy is holding a flow chart which I think wasn't used until the '50s. The whole "computers are taking over and screwing up your bills" thing that would have merited a Time Magazine cover was either late '60s or early '70s. So... 1968?
Show threadHuman Brain EnthusiastMar 15
@_the_cloud pretty solid reasoning! See solution in a reply to the OP
Show threadKarl BaronMar 15
@thomasfuchs Why does this look like a MAD fold-in, mentally I'm automatically trying to figure out what it becomes
Show threadeuroplus Mar 16
@thomasfuchs 1974