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"The writing is clicking away in my head and piling up, and unless I get it on paper somehow it's going to create uncomfortable pressure in my skull."
- Isaac Asimov

Desktop-TV  
  Video available worldwide, prepared by everyone.  

A pretty accurate prediction of YouTube, created in February 2005.

"I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it's just that kids today, they watch different shows, and I'm just some old fart who's out of it." He shook his head. "But that's not it. Well, no, actually I guess that is it, in a way - the first part, I mean. They do watch different shows. They all watch different shows. A thousand channels to choose from, from all over the damned world, plus all the desktop-TV shit being produced out of people's homes coming in over the net.
Technovelgy from Factoring Humanity, by Robert J. Sawyer.
Published by Orb in 1998
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