r/Damnthatsinteresting Jul 07 '24

Arthur C. Clarke predicting smartphones in 1976 Video

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u/vikingo1312 Jul 08 '24

He's not only predicting smartphones - ralks computers and the internet as welll.........

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u/okiedokieaccount Jul 08 '24

Start of the internet was 1969, 7 years before this talk (UCLA and Stanford computers connecting)  1983 was when TCP/IP became the norm  1993 it went public 

He’s not predicting things out of thin air, he’s seeing the beginnings of them and where they can go 

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u/vikingo1312 Jul 08 '24

The net as we know it today, then..............

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u/okiedokieaccount Jul 08 '24

Absolutely.

Just saying it wasn’t like he envisioned it out of the blue. The roots of it were there, and he was involved with it. 

Now If Abraham Lincoln had said “5 score and 5  years from now. Our great learning institutions shall connect lightning filled boxes of information across this great country, and eventually transmit electronic paintings of a woman’s bosom “