This is just PR, literally. In a magazine. Just as TimBL, and the other claimants of hypertext/network/technology pieces in the comments below. The story is no

This is just PR, literally. In a magazine. Just as TimBL, and the other claimants of hypertext/network/technology pieces in the comments below. The story is not unlike the one about going to the Moon. Verne wrote about it. Physicists judged it too, to be easy (just fill in F=ma so that you escape Earth with enough thrust -- only need to build a rocket large enough). Engineering/Engineers are the last thing being given credit to. Who actually fulfilled the dream. But my personal favourite is the Belgian. For ADD-ers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwRN5m64I7Y A nice story: http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet http://www.archive.org/details/paulotlet in text: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/forgotten_forefather_paul_otlet http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/forgotten_forefather_paul...