I recently read a free ebook book by Murray Leinster called "A Logic Named Joe."
The original book was published in 1946 and involves an electronic device called a "logic" that very much predicts how we use computers today.
Some of the things he predicted include:
- worldwide network of computers
- the problems associated when people can get any answer online - such as how to build a bomb
- computer video television
- video calliing like Skype
- Weather forcasts form the computer
- online advice
- online education
- problems of privacy online
I was quite struck by reading this book how much it sounded like the Internet the way it is 65 years later.