It was a prescient concrete embodiment of what were at the time only futuristic concepts. Dr. David Donnelly

Right or wrong?  You be the judge:  1999

In 1945, Vannevar Bush envisioned a means of information access that resembles the current means of linking information via hypertext. See his article As We May Think reprinted at http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm.

In 1964, Martin Greenberger used Bush's proposals to outline market possibilities for information services, electronic commerce and community. The Atlantic Monthly has reprinted his article The Computers of Tomorrow at
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/greenbf.htm.

David Sarnoff and William S. Paley both published rather accurate predictions of the future direction of TV at the very beginning of the 1930's. The essays have been reprinted in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1981, pp. 163-166.

"It is hard to imagine all the parts television will play in our lives in the future. ........ You might market or shop over telephone television, and see exactly what you are buying." Jeanne and Robert Bendick, Television Works Like This (NY: Whittlesey House:McGraw-Hill), 1959, p.62.

"The fifty years since Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone cover an advance in communications so rapid and continuous that one is easily tempted to prophesy. No doubt the future of the telephone art holds wonders equaling, perhaps surpassing, those which have already entered the pattern of existence. It requires little imagination, for instance, to believe that vocal communication between continents, already demonstrated experimentally, some day will become commonplace, and that such world-wide facilities for conversation must affect profoundly the relationships of states and peoples." Arthur Pond, The Telephone Idea: Fifty Years After, (NY: Greenberg Publisher), 1926, p. 52.

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, the author of the book 2001, envisioned satellite communication twenty years before it became a reality.

In a 1966 report of the Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Year 2000, the authors predicted "a national information computer-utility system with tens of thousands of terminals in homes and office hooked into giant central computers providing library and information services, retailing, ordering and billing services and the like."

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