1965
The illustration is by Boris Artzybasheff who was a prolific artist, especially for commercial art.
Back when tech companies paid artists to make amazing artworks and didn't just steal their work.
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@thomasfuchs Why does this look like a MAD fold-in
@thomasfuchs The computer is a giant cabinet with punch cards and tape drives instead of floppies, which dates this to '70s or earlier. The guy is holding a flow chart which I think wasn't used until the '50s. The whole "computers are taking over and screwing up your bills" thing that would have merited a Time Magazine cover was either late '60s or early '70s. So... 1968?
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@_the_cloud pretty solid reasoning! See solution in a reply to the OP
@thomasfuchs has to be 80s, right?
1965
The illustration is by Boris Artzybasheff who was a prolific artist, especially for commercial art.
Back when tech companies paid artists to make amazing artworks and didn't just steal their work.
1
@thomasfuchs I saw this days later so I guessed the over on 1970 (I do everything like an odds-maker after so much #poker in my life), so I lost.
It does remind me of Edison's stock ticker and how it impacted Wall Street. I think you can draw a straight line from Edison's stock ticker & the 1929 crash. As you can draw a straight line from that Time magazine cover to today.
@thomasfuchs
i think 1970-1975 range
@thomasfuchs oh my... 1972 or something?