Subj : Re: the machine stops
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Jul 09 2019 08:29 pm

-=> On 07-08-19 20:04, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 AA> Yes.. you said it spot on with "long before we even looked like having
 AA> the means to create the technology".  It would have been interesting to
 AA> know what spurred those visions and if there was anything else they
 AA> could share.

I've done it myself, though I never wrote about it.  In the 80s, I imagines
having a portable music player with no moving parts, simply using some sort of
memory chips to store the music data.  And today, they're everywhere. :)

 AA> My adventure began when I wondered what was the earliest vision of
 AA> internet documented anywhere.

Cool. :)

 AA> Regarding Twain, look for the sci-fi crime story entitled "From The
 AA> 'London Times' in 1904".  It actually depicts internet and social media
 AA> usage very close to how we use it today.

Very interesting.  


 TL>... Don't hit me, Mr. Moderator... I'll go back on topic... I swear!

 AA> This place is for the discussion of future technology (albiet how it
 AA> might be applied to fidonet)

 AA> Maybe we can use a Forster or a Twain here!  LOL

Haha yeah, true. :D


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