Re: Missed It By That Much

"James Nicoll" <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Another Clarke prediction, this time from _The Lost Worlds of 2001_ .
>>Once section features some-one receiving what can be best described as
>>an e-mail (text message delivered to a terminal).  For some reason,
>>however, he describes the message automatically being printed out on
>>paper as soon as it was received (more like a telex, I guess) rather
>>than being stored and viewed on a monitor.  This is particularly
>>jarring since the person receiving the e-mail is on a space****p in
>>orbit around Mars, where he might find it difficult to get more paper
>>should he happen to run out.
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> One of Poul Anderson's books (Don't recall the title: the one
> about an alien from Sigma Draconis dropping by) has something like the
> WWW that is also limited to printed output.

Not so far-fetched.  My mother, for example, prints *everything* out.