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"It wasn't until I was past forty that it bacame clear that I was going to be quote, successful, unquote."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Data-Net | ||
| An early mention of the idea of a nationwide data network. |
| Three hundred million people with access to the integrated North American data-net is a nice big number of potential consultees. |
| From The Shockwave Rider,
by John Brunner. Published by Harper and Row in 1975 Additional resources -
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The idea is mentioned throughout the book; here are some additional quotes:
Meantime, taking advantage of the corporation's status, he could gain access to data-nets that were ordinarily secure...
"Healthy adults like yourself capable of doing things that have never been done before, such as writing a complete new identity into the data-net over a regular veephone..."
According to recent report, there were so many worms and counterworms loose in the data-net now, the machines had been instructed to give them low priority unless they related to a medical emergency...
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