Posthuman Blues

Here's a riotously funny clip from "The Future is Now," a 1955 documentary that introduced the masses to such cutting-edge concepts as camcorders, electronic music and, of course, video-phones.

I like the way the video-phone just happens to resemble a pane of glass with a guy standing behind it. And the actors' pained smiles are priceless.

(Gracias, Paleo-Future!)