Here's Why

Unlimited Information

This is taken from the book "Science Fact" edited by Professor Frank George and published by Angus & Robertson in 1978.

"Unlimited informatuion at the end of your phone, By 1978 Videofile will be an public service. Harnessing the telephone and an ordinary TV set or a purpose built set as shown in these two pictures. You will dial a telephone number which links your TV set with contantly updated information. By Pressing a keyboard to call up the information required, the data is displayed on the screen.
Information will range from news, sport, hobbies, train times, classified advertisements, recipies, personal messages and later to answer specific questions and problems. Whole encyclopaedias and reference libraries will ultimately be `accessed' by Videofile."

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here

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