{"id":38396,"date":"2026-01-04T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=38396"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:00:06","slug":"thoughtwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/04\/thoughtwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on Hugo Gernsback&#8217;s Thought-Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the August 1940 issue of <em>Superworld Comics<\/em>, Hugo Gernsback predicted we&#8217;d someday be using a Thought-Writer, which would &#8220;be far more accurate than any other means of expressing your thoughts now in existence.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HugoGernsbackSuperworld-2048x1355.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Considering what a rambling steam of consciousness mess my thoughts are, I think I&#8217;ll stick to my notebook and pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the August 1940 issue of Superworld Comics, Hugo Gernsback predicted we&#8217;d someday be using a Thought-Writer, which would &#8220;be far more accurate than any other means of expressing your thoughts now in existence.&#8221; Considering what a rambling steam of consciousness mess my thoughts are, I think I&#8217;ll stick to my notebook and pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[648,321],"class_list":["post-38396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hugo-gernsback","tag-typewriters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38400,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38396\/revisions\/38400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}