In early 1990s I had read a book titled The Naked Sun by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. In the book he had envisioned & explained ‘chatting’. Mind you, the book was published in 1957, but he had had the foresight to predict that people will sit in different parts of the world and using a keyboard communicate with each other.
I had only vaguely understood it back then, and today I am enabling it (as Chief Product Officer of Nimbuzz, a product with 150+ million users all over the world).
Isaac Asimov had predicted a lifestyle phenomenon 50 years ahead of time…it is plain awesome.
The magnanimity of this whole episode (me reading about ‘chatting’ as a 17 year old in 1992 & now enabling it) didn’t occur to me till I saw this video of Sir Arthur C Clarke (see below) today.
Like Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C Clarke had also predicted the Internet the way we use it today…way back in 1968 – a cool 40 years ahead of time. Just in case you didn’t know him…British Sir Arthur C Clarke has been a multifaceted personality – having been a science fiction writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. BTW, he also wrote the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Watch him predict the Internet below:
Jamshed V Rajan (also known as Jammy) has worked with The New Indian Express, Kheladi.com, Sify.com, Satyam Computers, American International Group, Yahoo!, and ibibo.com.
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