Re: EJ and Technical Trends - A Few Notes

["Umberto Rossi" <urossi@programatic.it>]

Bertil, 

I have already found the www.  Here what one of our best Sf 
translators says about it:

> In FLOW MY TEARS... di Dick (scritto nel 1970, pubblicato nel '74)
> c'e' una netta anticipazione della WWW nella "phone-grid transex
> network", che prevede solo l'uso del telefono e non del computer,
> ma l'idea di una rete globale e' li', come quella dell'uso del
> telefono come grande mezzo per la trasmissione di dati. Per i
> telefonini non vanno bene gli aggeggetti di comunicazione di Star
> Trek? 

"In Dick's Flow my Tears, The Policeman Said (written 1970, published 
1974) there is a neat prediction of the WWW in the "phone-grid 
transex network", which is a telephone network, but outlines the idea 
of a global network, and presents also us with the idea of the use of 
the telephone grid as a major means of data transmission.  For the 
cellular phones, aren't the Star Trek devices enough?"

In fact all the members of the crew of the Enterprise carried a
small wrist-watch like communication device which seemed absolutely
sfnal then, but is today rahter familiar.  Not a vid-phone...

(Ahem, vid-phones *are* coming.  As soon they finish to cablate the 
bigger cities in the world they'll be able to give everybody a 
video-phone, probably via ISDN... so, were they all wrong, huh?)

Umberto Rossi

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