Please look at “Huddling Place” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddling_Place), from Clifford D. Simak, published in 1944, later inserted in his book “City”. There you’ll find the following, when it’s being described the agoraphobia that a lot of men are suffering: “For what need was there to go anywhere? It all was here. By simply twirling a dial one could talk face to face with anyone one wished, could go, by sense, if not in body, anywhere one wished. Could attend the theatre or hear a concert or browse in a library half-way around the world. Could transact any business one might need to transact without rising from one’s chair.”

Yes! I was going to mention this as well. I read it the first time when PCs came out but there was no internet, and I thought he was brilliant for predicting having computers in the home as information devices. Then the internet happened, and I was in complete awe that this guy basically got it right 50 years before it happened. Besides that, the story is fun!

Thank you Tim! working on it :-)

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