Epilogue. Examples of Digital Trends Accelerating the Digital Revolution

There are a number of great science fiction authors who always write, quite accurately, about the future of technology, decades—or even centuries—before it appeared. Call them visionaries or modern-day prophets, but they have an eerie knack for envisioning the future of technology. They’ve done a remarkable job of predicting where the Internet and various technologies are going to go.

Jules Verne may have missed the total picture when he wrote about ships being shot out of cannons going to the moon but he was writing about space travel in 1865. Then there was Isaac Asimov who is credited with introducing the word “robotics” into the English language. He served as a scientific ...

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