Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by JdeBP on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:42PM
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> its inventors couldn't possibly have imagined the world we live in today
... except that they could and did. People were not lacking in imagination. A science fiction writer imagined the Internet-connected smart 'phone in 1976, and put it into a science fiction novel (calling it the "mini-sec") titled Imperial Earth. A decade before that, an engineer imagined windows, hypertext, the mouse, word processing, graphics, and video conferencing, and gave what was later called The Mother of All Demos in an ACM/IEEE conference in 1968.
... except that they could and did. People were not lacking in imagination. A science fiction writer imagined the Internet-connected smart 'phone in 1976, and put it into a science fiction novel (calling it the "mini-sec") titled Imperial Earth. A decade before that, an engineer imagined windows, hypertext, the mouse, word processing, graphics, and video conferencing, and gave what was later called The Mother of All Demos in an ACM/IEEE conference in 1968.