Could anyone have predicted modern internet as early as 1946? One science fiction author got pretty close. In his short story, Leinster described logics, which is the way he called machines that function pretty much as networked modern Personal Computers. This video is a review about the technology in the story, things the author got right and wrong, and what the story inspires.
Sources:
Read A Logic Named Joe courtesy of BAEN Books.
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/...
Wikipedia – A Logic Named Joe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic...
A Logic Name Joe, by Murray Leinster – Baen
https://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/logi...
A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech
https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/1...
A Logic Named Joe, by Will F. Jenkins
https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-lo...
Thumbnail image by Dpbsmith at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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