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>In 1988, predicting "One essential thing would be a screen on which you could display things, and another essential part would be a printing mechanism on which
by jaclaz 9y ago
>In 1988, predicting "One essential thing would be a screen on which you could display things, and another essential part would be a printing mechanism on which things could be printed for you. And you’ll have to have a keyboard on which you ask your questions’ although ideally I would like to see one that could be activated by voice," was if anything badly retro.
But to be fair, the idea/concept of the Multivac and of the "home" terminal" (at least for accredited scientists) was present in Asimov's stories long before 1988, this is 1959:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversary_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniversary_(short_story)
Now, to be a little conspirationist, it could be possible that he foresaw that the Internet (as we know it today) may become a very large government controlled computer ... ...accessible only by a selected minority ...
- eesmith 9y agoMurray Leinster's 1946 short story "A Logic Named Joe" (quoting Wikipedia) "is particularly noteworthy as a prediction of massively networked personal computers and their drawbacks, written at a time when computing was in its infancy. The story's narrator is a "logic repairman" nicknamed Ducky. A "logic" is a computer-like device described as looking "like a vision receiver used to, only it's got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get"." Available from http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm . Also mentioned in one of the comments at the linked-to article.