In the same vein is J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor's "The Computer as a Communication Device" from 1968 [1]: "future version of this system will make it

In the same vein is J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor's "The Computer as a Communication Device" from 1968 [1]: "future version of this system will make it possible for each participant, on his own TV screen, to thumb through the speaker’s files as the speaker talks—and thus check out incidental questions without interrupting the presentation for substantiation." "You will not send a letter or a telegram; you will simply identify the people whose files should be linked to yours and the parts to which they should be linked-and perhaps specify a coefficient of urgency. You will seldom make a telephone call; you will ask the network to link your consoles together" "When people do their informational work 'at the console' and 'through the network,' telecommunication will be as natural an extension of individual work as face-to-face communication is now. The impact of that fact, and of the marked facilitation of the communicative process, will be very great—both on the individual and on society" [1] http://memex.org/licklider.pdf http://memex.org/licklider.pdf