In the field of computers, James Schmitz wrote some surprisingly prescient stuff. He sometimes mentioned a device called a ComWeb, which looks and acts a lot li

In the field of computers, James Schmitz wrote some surprisingly prescient stuff. He sometimes mentioned a device called a ComWeb, which looks and acts a lot like a modern computer with Internet access. You can make phone calls with them, or look up information, or read email, or play online board-games, or do various other things. They're not a major part of any of his plots; he just mentions them, as casually as someone today might mention sending an email. He wrote this in the 60s and 70s.