Apple iPhone focus groups from 1910

Boing Boing has posted a link to a French art exhibit that depicts a group of early iPhone/iPod users:

(Early iTelegraph/iPhonograph focus group Circa 1910)

Some of the books the Headmaster is adding to the iTelegraph's Knowledge Pulp-o-Matic: The cult/pop culture life manual Sex, Opium and Cocoa Beans, iCon Tom Edison and Mark Twain is a Big Fat Idiot.

The relaxed, whistling-a-Sunday-Afternoon-Picnic-with-Mildred Anne MacIntyre-tune look of the "Knowledge Engineer" really brings home the ease of use found in future Apple products. Unfortunately, early models of the Knowledge Pulp-o-Matic were run with coal, causing many Knowledge Engineers an agonizing death from lung disease before the age of 16. Later, more efficient models would be modified to operate on grain alcohol and processed pet remains. In the left hand background, you can cleary see a young Thomas Walter Jobs, the great great great uncle of the iconic CEO, Steve Jobs.

See the full exhibit (in French) here: Future Art