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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
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. |
David Brin's
Earth predicted the success of the Internet just before it took off, particularly wide-spread use of video.
I think
1984 is the most horrifying of predictors. Particularly the pervasive and intrusive surveillance we see in the UK, and that politicians tend to want in the US. Here is the single most famous dystopian novel, cited all the time, where everyone basically knows
Big Brother is watching... And the UK is doing everything they can to make it come true!
-Pie