Many people under the age of 40 will probably not realize what an incredibly insightful prediction this was for 1976: "You can call in through [a console] any

Many people under the age of 40 will probably not realize what an incredibly insightful prediction this was for 1976: "You can call in through [a console] any information you want: airline flights, price of things at the supermarket, books you’ve always wanted to read… News, selectively; you can tell the machine I’m interested in such and such items, sports, politics and so forth, and the machine will go to the main central library and bring all this to you, selectively – just what you want; not all the junk that you have to get when you buy the two or three pounds of wood pulp which is the daily newspaper."