This is a brilliant design fiction. Did you know that the Post Office invented Skype in 1969? This is the direct equivalent of Microsoft’s future visions done forty years early. It’s brilliant for one particular line. When he rings through on the video phone it doesn’t work. The first thing that happens when we see this glorious new technology spring into life is that it’s just as flawed as phones are nowadays, with a dodgy connection and a flickering image. This is the normalcy thing, remember? Even forty years later, at a considerate thought level, this is much more objectively powerful than Microsoft’s shiny glass-fest.