Computer
| year written | year set | author | title | quote | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 2010 | John Brunner | Stand On Zanzibar | Eighteen inches high, diameter at the base eleven inches, and it's the world's largest computer thanks to GT's patented and registered system known as Micryogenecs. | Pretty small. (Although there are a lot of peripherals around it) |
| 1968 | 2010 | John Brunner | Stand On Zanzibar | You don't memorize log and sine tables; You buy a slide-rule or learn to punch a public computer! | No PCs, but apparently public computers are ubiquitous enough that people would prefer their use to logarithm tables and possibly slide-rules. I'm not sure what Brunner means by "punching a computer", but elsewhere somebody "punches an encyclopedia connection on his phone", so maybe public computers can be accessed by telephone? An early vision of the Cloud? |
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