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

[Toerless Eckert]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 12:25:51PM -0400, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
> "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!"

For northern california this is historic.
Our PUC absorbs all hate away from TPC.

Alas no comparable good movie about it AFAIK.
I was hoping for "Ashes to Ashes", but it
seems we are getting a re-run of "Rise of the Phoenix".

i derail.

> 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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> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Geoff.Goodfellow at iconia.com <mailto:Geoff.Goodfellow at iconia.com>
> > living as The Truth is True