"Tzortzakakis Dimitrios" <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Ï "John D Salt" <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá
> news:Xns9A874455053C4BaldHeadedJohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> richardcasady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Richard Casady) wrote in
>> news:481603fc.781660906@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> On 20 Apr 2008 14:57:59 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.
>>>
>>> No ****? On the other hand, predictions about the past are not that
>>> hard.
>>
>> Ah, a non-historian.
>>
>> All the best,
> A much more famous example for future predictions is George Orwell's
1984,
> in which there are no computers but machines "kaleidoskopes" that write
> books and "speakwrites" instead of word processors, but he did predict
flat
> panel "telescreens". He calls biros "ink-pencils".
Considering that Bíró filed for a UK patent in 1938 and the pens were
marketed starting around 1940, predicting them in 1948 would hardly
have been difficult.
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