I remember reading Scientific American magazines in my local library in the third world as a kid.
I was blown away by the ads.
From useless gadgets that will probably be fun for an hour or two only to very expensive ones aimed at people with clearly a ton of disposable income.
Lawnmowers you can ride on?! A thing just to detect rings in the sand? How rich are these people? A watch that sets itself to an atomic clock? An astronaut pen that writes underwater? Telescopes in your back yard?!
The sheer volume and variety of ads told me that the economy of that place was in a totally different league from my own.
I was blown away by the ads.
From useless gadgets that will probably be fun for an hour or two only to very expensive ones aimed at people with clearly a ton of disposable income.
Lawnmowers you can ride on?! A thing just to detect rings in the sand? How rich are these people? A watch that sets itself to an atomic clock? An astronaut pen that writes underwater? Telescopes in your back yard?!
The sheer volume and variety of ads told me that the economy of that place was in a totally different league from my own.