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Clarke foresaw information access from home

Артур Кларк удома в Коломбо 2005 року; пізніший портрет, не кадр інтерв’ю ABC 1974 / Arthur C. Clarke at home in Colombo in 2005; a later portrait, not a frame from the 1974 ABC interview.

Артур Кларк удома в Коломбо 2005 року; пізніший портрет, не кадр інтерв’ю ABC 1974 / Arthur C. Clarke at home in Colombo in 2005; a later portrait, not a frame from the 1974 ABC interview.

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In a 1974 ABC interview, Arthur C. Clarke described a future in which domestic computer terminals would provide information and banking records and allow people to work from home. This was a perceptive forecast of networked services, rather than the technical invention of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee proposed the Web at CERN in 1989, fifteen years after that interview, rather than nineteen. Networked computers and earlier data-sharing systems preceded the Web.