John B. Morgan wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Umberto Rossi wrote: > > > A recent article in a Swedish daily on the failure of science > > fiction writers to offer a prediction on the creation of Internet > > and mobile phones, made me contemplate the abilities of Ernst > > Juenger in the field. J.B.M is attacking the wrong guy. U.R. never wrote the above. > This would be an extremely difficult position to defend, considering that > many terms, such as, for example, "cyberspace," a term frequently utilized > to describe the space we're now communicating in, was coined by the > science fiction writer William Gibson in his famous novel NEUROMANCER back > in 1984. Although I'd have to think to come up with the authors and titles, I > also know that the concepts of global computer networks and mobile > communications devices go back AT LEAST to the SF of the 1950s. Yes, but 1984 is too late. Please give examples of ptedictions concerning Internet, personal computers, and mobile phones before 1975 among sf writers. > It sounds to me like some reporter didn't do his/her homework. Perhaps > only Swedish science fiction was being referred to...a subject I know > nothing about. But it certainly could not be said of science fiction as a > whole. Waiting for you to give examples as you seem so sure of your claims. My statement that EJ has been better than sf-writers at predictions stands, until I am convinced I am wrong. Greetings Bertil Haggman
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