[NJARC] Interesting Sarnoff Quote

[Scott Roberts]

Wish he'd missed the whole blasted thing... Computers are wrecking society and the world...

Scott

--- On Tue, 6/1/10, John Ruccolo <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: John Ruccolo <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Interesting Sarnoff Quote
> To: "Al Klase" <al at ar88.net>, "New Jersey Antique Radio Club" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 12:36 AM
> Just remember 
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> _________________________________________________________
> Sarnoff totally missed the iPad.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Al Klase <al at ar88.net>
> To: New Jersey Antique Radio Club <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 10:30:57 PM
> Subject: [NJARC] Interesting Sarnoff Quote
> 
> Just remember 
> Reply = Poster
> Reply All = Everyone
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Al Klase - N3FRQ
> Jersey City, NJ
> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
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