...still have music on almost constantly. JOAN KENNEDY, THE /or OF CLASSICAL Mus;c If we could devise an arrangement for providing everybody with music...mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should consider the limit of human felicity (to be) already attained EDWARD BELLAMY Your day is now! Every...

...professional musicians played around the clock. Bellamy anticipated recorded sound when he described "An arrangement for providing everybody with music...to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will.'" Thomas Edison was also a visionary, a man who made it his business to see into the future, and who...

...rewriting, unending thanks to my wife, Susan Strohm. 1 The Evolution of a Revolution (Origins-1930s) It appears to me, Miss Leete, "I said," that if we...the limit of human felicity already attained, and cease to strive for further improvements. —EDWARD BELLAMY, LOOKING BACKWARD, 18881 George Gardner...

...going on that you prefer, you can hear merely by pressing the button which will connect your house wire with the hall where it is being rendered. The programmes...attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements." If we feel sceptical of the happiness which technical inventions might bring us, it also is difficult...

...providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to ever)- mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should...already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements".'112 With this utopia, machinery has come to stay as an integral part of all modern utopias,...