At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Joel Cunningham tagged five books that predicted the internet, including:
The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov (1957): As one of the most influential science-fiction writers of all time—and one of the most prolific—it’s no wonder that Asimov managed to stumble across the idea of the internet. In The Naked Sun, a detective and his robot sidekick visit Solaria, a planet where the strictly controlled human population shuns personal contact, preferring instead to interact through the use of machines. As someone who has spent an entire weekend alone on the computer, I can identify with the citizens of this world and would love to meet them. Just not face-to-face. Maybe via Skype.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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