History of Computers and Computing, Internet, Dreamers, Murray Leinster - 2 views
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Leinster made one of the first descriptions of a personal computer (called a "logic") in science fiction
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Leinster envisioned logics in every home, linked through a distributed system of servers (called "tanks"), to provide communications, entertainment, data access, and even commerce
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Information runs rampant as every logic worldwide crunches away at problems too vast in scope for human minds to have attempted. Societal chaos quickly ensues, the situation became critical.