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"No one has ever produced a statement of fact that was technically true. The most accurate statements of science we have today are accurate to only 15 decimal places."
- Bart Kosko
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| Desktop-TV | ||
| Video available worldwide, prepared by everyone. |
A pretty accurate prediction of YouTube, created in February 2005.
| "I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it's just that kids today, they watch different shows, and I'm just some old fart who's out of it." He shook his head. "But that's not it. Well, no, actually I guess that is it, in a way - the first part, I mean. They do watch different shows. They all watch different shows. A thousand channels to choose from, from all over the damned world, plus all the desktop-TV shit being produced out of people's homes coming in over the net. |
| Technovelgy from Factoring Humanity,
by Robert J. Sawyer. Published by Orb in 1998 Additional resources -
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