[GreenKeys] OT Fwd: News by Radio Fax 1920 - 1930

[Richard Knoppow]

    It was pointed out to me that two inventions never mentioned in 
science fiction were jet engines and personal computers.  I wrote this 
before and someone referred me to a story that did predict small 
computers but I've forgotten what it was. Most stories about computers 
were about very large scale machines taking over the world. No one 
thought in terms of a computer empowering individuals. They have 
certainly revolutionized communications.
    I do remember a story, again I can't remember the title of author, 
which explored a time when everyone communicated via computer and no one 
ever left home. A boy and girl meet on this system and decide to meet in 
person but each is so set in his/her ways that achieving satisfactory 
conditions is impossible. Not quite there yet and people seem to be just 
as personally sociable as ever. Most of the horror stories about 
computers turned out to be false. Of course books have been written 
about science fiction and the impact of nuclear warfare on it.
    Many of these 1950s vintage stories were well dramatized on an old 
NBC radio show called "Dimension X" later changed to "X Minus One" all 
to be found on www.archive.org

On 12/3/2016 4:27 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> The wonderful thing we can do today we could not do before  is having
> microcontrollers to stabilize it.  We used to dream of things like this
> is the 60s, but there was no  small  computers!
>
> The  fact  he is getting 10 minutes flight time out of it  is  good  for
> the  the mass of  it and the pilot.
>
> The future is just around the corner!
>
> Ed#  www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org>
>
> In a message dated 12/3/2016 4:34:22 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> rmowery28146 at earthlink.net writes:
>
>     Forget the flying car and check this out for getting around.
>
>     It makes that Back to the Futcher hover board look really obsolete.
>
>     http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-flyboard-air.htm
>
>
>
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