Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cfogg@milton.u.washington.edu (Chad Fogg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phones in the Movies Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 22:05:01 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 512, message 5 of 12 In article you write: >I seem to remember Arthur C. Clarke, or Stanley Kubrick, or someone >(my brain-grep comes up with Clarke's _The Odyssey Files_ book on the >making of 2010, but I'm not certain) saying that "the only thing >that's out of date in _2001_ is the Bell System logo on the phone in >the space station." [paraphrase]. It should be further noted that the clairvoyant Mr. Clarke adds in his latest sequel, 2061: Odyssey Three, and I quote: ..the coming of the jet age had triggered an explosion of global tourism. At almost the same time -- it was not, of course, a coincidence -- satellites and fiber optics had revolutionized communications. With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family. (p. 15) Sounds like science FICTION to me. INTERNET & BITNET: cfogg@blake.acs.washington.edu [IP:128.95.136.2] UUCP path : ....uw-beaver!blake.acs.washington.edu!cfogg