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A comment on Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977).

Re:Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of... by Rebelgecko on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:59PM (#19040943)
I haven't finished reading yet, but some of the ideas presented are so prescient I thought it was fake at first— I got a chuckle out of the "large-screen, high-definition Picturephone-Plus". With the exception of the end of timezones (people like being awake during the day), a lot of the big ideas Clarke mentions have already come to pass or conceivably could in the near future.
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Re:Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of... by porpoisely on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:42PM (#19041838)
I rewatched 2001 : Space Odyssey last summer and was surprised how prescient he was about certain things. He got video calling right, but I also chuckled when people were still dialing on a physical number pad. He got the big idea right but was off on little details.
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Re:Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of... by jhbadger on Thursday January 31, 2019 @05:41AM (#19043853)
Even Blade Runner made over a decade later (1982), had number pads on its video phones despite touch screen technology being available in real life (PLATO terminals, for example). Yes, maybe failure of vision, but remember until the smartphone era a decade ago (where screen space became all important) even mobile phones generally still had a physical number pad under the screen.
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Re:Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of... by setquk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:10PM (#19041026)
He got to see a fair few of them as well in the 30 years since that article he lived for. Perhaps his writing had a hand in the inspiration. When I’m out of ideas I look at science fiction for inspiration.
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Re:Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of... by arunmp on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:36PM (#19042368)
"We are already approaching the point when it will be feasible — not necessarily desirable — for those engaged in what is quaintly called “white-collar” jobs to do perhaps 95 per cent of their work without leaving home. " :- he nailed the trend of working from home too.
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