Tales of Future Past v2

The other side of the coin was the Early '64 World's Fair school of office design that seems to have been intended to be manned by air stewardesses.

True, there are no writing surfaces, drawers, keyboards or even a cupholder, but it does have multicoloured panels, moulded plastic consoles, a standard issue AT&T telephone handset and huge status lights that are still too far away to be actually read by anyone at the desk.

And, of course, screens -- lots and lots of tiny screens everywhere. None of them seem to be tuned to anything, but one must take the rough with the smooth.

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