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As early as 2003, popular culture was catching on to the fact that the ‘information superhighway’ had some potholes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7F
by cainxinth 4y ago
As early as 2003, popular culture was catching on to the fact that the ‘information superhighway’ had some potholes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
- dredmorbius 4y agoIssues with the Internet date to its origins ... and inventors. Paul Baran in the 1960s, amongst others, whom I've compiled here: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193> Sources / instances date to the 1980s or earlier, addressing specifically the false assertion by many that "nobody saw this coming".
- cainxinth 4y agoVernor Vinge saw it coming too. In his 1992 sci-fi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep,” set in the far future, the internet is called “The Net of a Million Lies”: https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-vernor-vinges-a-fire-upon-the-deep/comment-page-1 https://www.tor.com/2009/06/11/the-net-of-a-million-lies-ver...