[ih] Fiction->History

Larry press larrypress at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 20:57:25 PDT 2015


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jonathan Grudin <jgrudin at microsoft.com> wrote:
> My favorite examples of science fiction that got it right are  E. M Forster's 1909 The Machine Stops, which I thought did a good job of capturing some Internet capabilities a century later

He got the network idea right, but I hope he was wrong on implications
for individuals and society -- 100% dystopian.

> Vannevar Bush's As We May Think

Here is a pdf of Doug Engelbart's copy with Doug's marginal notes:

http://www.dougengelbart.org/archives/artifacts/annotated-As-We-May-Think-withcredits.pdf

Larry



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