A decade on from the fabled year 1999, and the public transport in my town has yet to achieve anything close to this kind of splendour. Here in Melbourne the ‘El’ would be shorthand for “extremely late”.
Paul Otlet’s “radiated book”
In the 1930s, author and entrepreneur Paul Otlet dreamt up an information retrieval system that seems to foreshadow the modern world wide web.
“Computers. How they were invented — how they work — what they can do, both now and in an exciting future.”
I wonder if K. N. Dodd Ph.D predicted that computers in his “exciting future” would mainly be used for looking at people in various stages of undress, grammatically-challenged cats, and grammatically-challenged cats with clothes on.
Why one should exercise caution when using the word ‘modern’.