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Centauri, issue 2, Winter 1944
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Page 8 Centauri -THE UNNAMED- who don't understand it; has been read by hundreds of thousands through Wollheim's PocketBOOK; offers a chance for some trick photography; and wouldn't be expensive to produce, needing only a handful of actors and one set. Is anyone willing to go to work on this, right now? How many fans have noticed that the present war is hastening the coming of one of the pet "properties" of stf writers who like to make their world of the future as realistic as possible? That is the "tape recording", or sometimes a wire one, that will theoretically in a few hundred years have replaced the present system of using large, thin flat disks for records. Several times recently AP dispatches have told of experiments with such tapes and wires for sending recordings to the service men far away from this country -- Australia, for instance -- the sending to whom of records is a major problem, with shipping still a problem for this country despite the easing off of the submarine menace. And just the other day came word that there is a sort of tape device being used on the crew, partly in order to verify memories after the men return, and partly to provide some record of what happened in case one or more men in a plane are killed during the raid. This, according to the article, was available for an unlimited number of re-playings, and could at any time be 'wiped off', and the material used for new recordings. It seems very probable to me that five years after the end of this war will see the end of the present sort of records. They're dreadfully hard to handle, especially in the case of the big transcriptions radio stations use, take up huge amounts of storage space, are still fragile, and very vulnerable to accidental marrings since the entire surface is exposed when they are in use. My guess is that the recordings of the future will look very much like movie film and be handled in much the same way. That way, it'll be possible to go from one recording to another without interruption, a tremendous advantage for recordings of long musical compositions or even complete plays -- they can be manufactured all in one long strip, or sold in sections and easily spliced together. Whether the future recording medium proves to be wire or tape, it'll take up almost no space in comparison with present-day devices, and may be dropped with impunity. Matter of fact, we're catching up faster to stf during this war than we did during the entire twenty years between the end of the last one and the beginning of the present. Besides these recording techniques, rockets are coming to the fore in almost every direction except actual use for the prolonged propulsion of airships, for instance, and television at last is all set for general use, needing only the end of hostilities to come into the public domain. The stf -- continued on page 13 --
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Page 8 Centauri -THE UNNAMED- who don't understand it; has been read by hundreds of thousands through Wollheim's PocketBOOK; offers a chance for some trick photography; and wouldn't be expensive to produce, needing only a handful of actors and one set. Is anyone willing to go to work on this, right now? How many fans have noticed that the present war is hastening the coming of one of the pet "properties" of stf writers who like to make their world of the future as realistic as possible? That is the "tape recording", or sometimes a wire one, that will theoretically in a few hundred years have replaced the present system of using large, thin flat disks for records. Several times recently AP dispatches have told of experiments with such tapes and wires for sending recordings to the service men far away from this country -- Australia, for instance -- the sending to whom of records is a major problem, with shipping still a problem for this country despite the easing off of the submarine menace. And just the other day came word that there is a sort of tape device being used on the crew, partly in order to verify memories after the men return, and partly to provide some record of what happened in case one or more men in a plane are killed during the raid. This, according to the article, was available for an unlimited number of re-playings, and could at any time be 'wiped off', and the material used for new recordings. It seems very probable to me that five years after the end of this war will see the end of the present sort of records. They're dreadfully hard to handle, especially in the case of the big transcriptions radio stations use, take up huge amounts of storage space, are still fragile, and very vulnerable to accidental marrings since the entire surface is exposed when they are in use. My guess is that the recordings of the future will look very much like movie film and be handled in much the same way. That way, it'll be possible to go from one recording to another without interruption, a tremendous advantage for recordings of long musical compositions or even complete plays -- they can be manufactured all in one long strip, or sold in sections and easily spliced together. Whether the future recording medium proves to be wire or tape, it'll take up almost no space in comparison with present-day devices, and may be dropped with impunity. Matter of fact, we're catching up faster to stf during this war than we did during the entire twenty years between the end of the last one and the beginning of the present. Besides these recording techniques, rockets are coming to the fore in almost every direction except actual use for the prolonged propulsion of airships, for instance, and television at last is all set for general use, needing only the end of hostilities to come into the public domain. The stf -- continued on page 13 --
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