Re: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder wrote: A 1968 view of future communications > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOELouwBDI > (note the gender stereotype - she buys, he pays) > They got the basic ideas right, but the mechanics wrong. You would think that by 1968 people would realize that video text would be used instead

Re: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread H Veeder
> *Sent:* Friday, February 07, 2014 12:19 PM > *Subject:* [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972 > > It is often said that people cannot predict future technology, even a few > decades in advance. Some people cannot, but others can. Here is something > Arthur Clarke wrote in

Re: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
riday, February 07, 2014 12:19 PM Subject: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972 It is often said that people cannot predict future technology, even a few decades in advance. Some people cannot, but others can. Here is something Arthur Clarke wrote in 1972. He and others predicted the Interne

[Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
It is often said that people cannot predict future technology, even a few decades in advance. Some people cannot, but others can. Here is something Arthur Clarke wrote in 1972. He and others predicted the Internet and many of its ramifications. . . . It will be a future in which men do much less