In 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. (Hello there, Internet!)
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In 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. (Hello there, Internet!)
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He also wrote an essay describing in detail how satellites (which weren’t plausible yet) would someday provide communication all over the earth for a sci-fi magazine. When he was like 17. The man was a genius!
Mar 30th, 2012 / 10:34 am
If you read the tale ‘The machine stops’ by E.M. Forster (1909). This is a true internet-connected world _avant la lettre_. (you can download it from Manybooks, for example – http://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.html)
Curiously, the job of the cubicle-dwelling people of the Earth is to come up with new ideas!
Mar 30th, 2012 / 12:22 pm
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Mar 30th, 2012 / 12:32 pm
If only Mr. Clarke could’ve warned that kid about Goatse…
Mar 30th, 2012 / 2:38 pm
He predicted the Internet in 1974 (38 years ago), I wonder what the future will bring in 38 years (2050). Any Arthur Clarke out there who can make us dream?
Mar 30th, 2012 / 6:06 pm
Not to denigrate Clarke’s genius, but, as I note in another thread about this, Vannevar Bush (no relation to either PotUS), actually decribed the internet and personal computing in an article written for Atlantic Monthly in 1945:
As We May Think
He got the underlying tech all wrong, but that’s pretty much a personal computer with internet access he’s describing.
Apr 1st, 2012 / 4:49 pm
thanks for this swissmiss, Clarke is one of my faves and i hadnt seen this.
now to figure out how to move out of the city as he suggested ;)
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