Some aspects of E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909) suggest the internet, eg Vashti knowing several thousand people through the Machine, even if we aren't physically dependent on it as Forster imagined. And I can imagine the lecture about a future generation "which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine" transferred to an internet context.
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Date: 2008-08-26 12:34 pm (UTC)