“We’re Going To Get Devices Which Will Enable Us To Send Much More Information To Our Friends”

Arthur C. Clarke cribbed elements of gestating, early ’60s Bell Labs projects (e.g., picturephones) for 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1976, he was interviewed by AT&T about the future of communications. He knew the world would soon be interconnected, social and mobile on a grand scale.

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