The predictions of the internet in 1988 were hardly prophetic, since there were already global computer networks in place at the time. Clarke predicted the ipho

The predictions of the internet in 1988 were hardly prophetic, since there were already global computer networks in place at the time. Clarke predicted the iphone in 1976 with the 'minisec' in "Imperial Earth". Hogan predicted the internet in "The Genesis Machine" in 1978.