steerpike opened this issue on Nov 25, 2004 ยท 42 posts
ockham posted Thu, 25 November 2004 at 8:44 AM
It may be a hoax, but the attitude is exactly accurate. Hell, even after true desktop computers were available from DEC in the early '70s, only a handful of sci-fi types could envision that they would be in every home. The best prophet of all was sci-fi writer Murray Leinster, whose 1946 story "A Logic Named Joe" got it almost exactly right... even down to Google. Leinster didn't even try to imagine the internal technology that would make the dream possible.