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

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

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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