From 0dc7ac73d8be20413cd3b2f75cdfd00af06de615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilko Bulte Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:29:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] visionary thoughts.. MFC after: 1 week --- games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 9f4d4d855acc..b30d11589767 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -60920,3 +60920,18 @@ Any sufficiently simple directive can be obfuscated beyond reason given proper legal counsel. - Alfred Perlstein +% +David Sarnoff, 1964: "The computer will become the hub of a vast network of +remote data stations and information banks feeding into the machine at +a transmission rate of a billion or more bits of information a +second. Laser channels will vastly increase both data capacity and the +speeds with which it will be transmitted. Eventually, a global +communications network handling voice, data and facsimile will +instantly link man to machine--or machine to machine--by land, air, +underwater, and space circuits. [The computer] will affect man's +ways of thinking, his means of education, his relationship to his physical +and social environment, and it will alter his ways of living... +[Before the end of this century, these forces] will coalesce into what +unquestionably will become the greatest adventure of the human mind." + +- from David Sarnoff by Eugene Lyons, 1966.