Re: Missed It By That Much

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ncwaite@[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.

Maybe it wasn't use-only-once paper.

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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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