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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: ABQ, New Mexico
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The first person to write about the possibilities of a globally connected community was Mark Twain in the late 19th century, long before Al Gore was even born. In Twain’s 1898 short story “From the ‘London Times’ of 1904,” he wrote that the “telectroscope” (inventor Jan Szczepanik’s real late 19th century creation) would use the phone system to create a worldwide network for sharing information.
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