On 07-07-19 22:39, August Abolins wrote to Everyone.. <=-
I just discovered and finished reading EM Forster's "The Machine
Stops". It's a sci-fi short story/novella. It is set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on "the machine" for all its
needs. It predicts instant messaging and the internet; that's pretty interesting for something published 110 years ago.
A short story by Mark Twain in 1898 (published in 1904) might even
contain an earlier imaginging of the internet or social media in
greater detail. But I haven't read that one, yet.
It's amazing how prophetic some science fiction was, when written at a
time long before we even looked like having the means to create the
technology.
A short story by Mark Twain in 1898 (published in 1904) might even
contain an earlier imaginging of the internet or social media in
greater detail. But I haven't read that one, yet.
Looks like some reading coming up. :)
... Don't hit me, Mr. Moderator... I'll go back on topic... I swear!
On 07-08-19 20:04, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Yes.. you said it spot on with "long before we even looked like having
the means to create the technology". It would have been interesting to know what spurred those visions and if there was anything else they
could share.
My adventure began when I wondered what was the earliest vision of internet documented anywhere.
Regarding Twain, look for the sci-fi crime story entitled "From The 'London Times' in 1904". It actually depicts internet and social media usage very close to how we use it today.
... Don't hit me, Mr. Moderator... I'll go back on topic... I swear!
This place is for the discussion of future technology (albiet how it
might be applied to fidonet)
Maybe we can use a Forster or a Twain here! LOL
...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. :)
On 07-10-19 23:36, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
After I got my first cd player in the mid-80's, I wondered wouldn't be better if instead of CDs (and all the crazy moving mechanics to control the disc speed, the laser, changing a disc in a multi-player, etc..),
that the music was on little ram modules that could be inserted into
the player. The whole idea was to avoid moving parts. But I guess the cost of memory at that time would not make such a thing doable until
about 10 years later when portable mp3 players arrived instead.
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