Negative Space: Wayne Green
- The Future from 1981
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One of the hallmarks of good science fiction is not just envisioning future technologies, but also the effects of the technology on everyday life. In November, 1981, Wayne Green looked into the usefulness of the secretary in the age of the personal computer.
- Peer to peer email from 1980
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A fascinating vision of the convergence of e-mail and text messaging from 1980.
- What is a captive audience, anyway?
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G.K. Chesterton writes, in Eugenics and Other Evils, that whenever someone starts asking “what is x anyway?” you know they’re trying to pull some wool over your eyes and make it the default. So, really, what is a captive audience, anyway?
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- Tech visionary Wayne Green: Still on a mission
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“Before there were cell phones, before there were laptops, before there were PCs, there was Wayne Green, a ham radio enthusiast turned magazine publisher from Brooklyn, N.Y.… Green was there at the dawn of the microcomputer revolution, committed to two ideas that were novelties at the time: that home enthusiasts could build and program their own computers, and that they'd be willing to subscribe to magazines and buy books that told them how to do so.”
