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See, I'd credit Heinlein with predicting the internet back in the fifties and sixties.
by stavrianos 17y ago
See, I'd credit Heinlein with predicting the internet back in the fifties and sixties.
- Semiapies 17y agoWhat works are you thinking of? When I think of Heinlein in that period, I remember a protagonist talking with a trucker about the truck's antigrav propulsion, then whipping out a slip-stick to figure out how far down it would be pushed under load. (Citizen of the Galaxy, I think.)
- stavrianos 17y agoStranger in a Strange Land had some "news nets" or somesuch that seemed pretty close to me. That's sixty-one. I poked through though, and everything that I was thinking of specifically turned out to be much later.
- Semiapies 17y agoWell, "network" had a different meaning back in 1961. :) Stranger is one of the few (only?) Heinlein things I haven't read, mind. Need to get around to it.