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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm not sure who "most experts" are, but E. M. Forster beat that by 37 years:
The Machine Stops
True, the technical details of the Machine are never truly specified, but it's got streaming music, chat, people who IM you at annoying times, and the Internet echo chamber effect in all its glory. Whether or not Forster foresaw exactly how his Machine would work, he was disturbingly prescient about Internet culture. |
Debatable. What Forster described was more a glorified telephone system.
In A Logic Named Joe there were a distributed set of central information repositories analogous to servers on the World Wide Web. Which is what DARPANET originally was.