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Those who have read Arthur C. Clarke’s famous short story, “Dial F for Frankenstein,” published in 1961, may recall his prescient prediction of an increasingly interconnected telephone network that sort of goes berserk and starts global chaos by taking over all financial, transportation, and military systems. So Clarke, much as he had also visualized a tablet computer, did have visions of an interconnected communications system.
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.
—John Perry, lyricist of “The Grateful Dead”
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Notes
Janelle Nanos, “Return to sender,” Boston Magazine , June 2012, www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/05/shiva-ayyaduri-email-us-postal-service.
Sean Fanning, “Google Gets Ungoogleable off Sweden’s New Word List,” BBC News, March 26, 2013.
Claire Cann Miller, “Web Search at Crossroads, and Relevance Is the Quest Now,” New York Times, April 4, 2013.
Vincent G. Cerf, “Why the Internet Works and How to Break It,” Economic Times, New Delhi, January 28, 2013.
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Sethi, A.K. (2013). Computer Networks and the Internet. In: The Business of Electronics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323385_8
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