Extraordinary that the author of this prophetic piece of social commentary was also one of the inventors of packet switching! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P

Extraordinary that the author of this prophetic piece of social commentary was also one of the inventors of packet switching! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran The diagrams of centralised, decentralised and distributed networks from his 1963 RAND paper "Introduction to Distributed Communications" will be familiar to many. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3420/fig1.GIF https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/pubs/rese... Here's the paper. If you ever hear someone say the Internet was designed to survive a nuclear strike, this is the research they're talking about. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3420.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3420.html