[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

[John Day]

And the villain was TPC!  ;-)

The Phone Company

Do you also know The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe?
Another very funny movie with a very serious point.

> On Jul 6, 2020, at 13:56, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> and let's not forget that in 1967 there was
> The Science of Microelectronics
> in *The President's Analyst, viz.: *
> "the Cerebrum Communicator or the CC for short"
> (for which there is an awesome demo clip) of at:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwF3dRJiS8
> 
> for anyone who has not seen this seminal film, it's a MUST SEE! :D
> 
> geoff
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:07 AM Don Hopkins via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>>> On Jul 6, 2020, at 17:25, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 7/6/20 10:52 AM, John Gilmore via Internet-history wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> I answered him that thirty years of the internet has been a spectacular
>>>>> time of development. Can you imagine the word fighting the COVID-19
>>>>> pandemic without the internet? If there were no internet, there could
>> be
>>>>> very little working from home, no online classes for students stuck at
>>>>> home, no video communication with family and friends, much more
>> loneliness,
>>>> In 1992 John Perry Barlow called for "connecting every mind to every
>>>> other mind in full-duplex broadband. ... The creation of ... a
>>>> ubiquitous digital web, [for] ... telephone service, e-mail, software,
>>>> faxes, ... 'video postcards', and, in time, High Definition Television
>>>> as well as other media as yet barely imagined."  He called it The Great
>>>> Work.
>>> 
>>> Long before that, Licklider wrote:
>>> 
>>> "The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing
>> machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting
>> partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data
>> in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know
>> today."  (In "Man-Computer Symbiosis," 1960,
>> https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html)
>>> 
>>> And, of course, he's the one who wrote the famous "MEMORANDUM FOR:
>> Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network," in 1963 (
>> https://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network
>> ).
>>> 
>>> Miles Fidelman
>> 
>> 
>> Even longer before that, Mary Shelley wrote:
>> 
>> “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that
>> account we shall be more attached to one another.”
>> 
>> And a bit later, Mel Brooks wrote:
>> 
>> "Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot
>> long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?” -Dr.
>> Frederick Frankenstein
>> 
>> -Don
>> 
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