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The way that we use computers to communicate is very different from the Plain Old Telephone System. With telephones you could call an individual around the worl
by ynniv 13y ago
The way that we use computers to communicate is very different from the Plain Old Telephone System. With telephones you could call an individual around the world, but you couldn't have the kind of interactions with lots of people in non-realtime that computers allow.
- stormbrew 13y agoYes, and how you obtain things will be different when you can reliably make them at home. Yes, even stupid plastic trinkets (as if it'll really stop there anyways). The point is, if you pretend a new tech will always be as lame as it is now you'll never see anything coming. And for most of the years computers have been around they did not revolutionize communication. That's a relatively late development.
- ynniv 13y agoAnd for most of the years computers have been around they did not revolutionize communication. That's a relatively late development. Not even close. Computers have been used as a novel communications tool since at least 1958, and for (de)encryption of traditional communications since 1943. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment#Network_communications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environme... ] [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer ]