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

[Miles Fidelman]

"You know, one thing I learned from my patients... they all hate the 
phone company. It's interesting; even the stock holders of the phone 
company hate the phone company!"

On 7/6/20 1:56 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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