Josh Bernstein

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• October 30, 2008, on Internet Software Patents:

  Most of the responders show their age in the focus of their quite accurate comments. However, on the origins of computer possibilities, one can go back to the late 1940s and all of 1950s and find most of the things being discussed in various science fiction stories from that era. The silly one that comes to mind is Dick Tracy's communicator watch. That was really the first mention, I can recall, outside of science fiction of the cell phone and related technologies. Not so silly any more? Much of what the latter day "innovators" have discovered were found in that era, especially in the more hard core science magazines such as "Analog". Those stories range from the silly to the sublime. It is a shame that so much of that literature has been lost or worse cooped without attribution. It would be interesting to see the effect of bringing those stories into the patent wars. General Extension I find the ideas that "futurists" are offering to be old stale ideas from that era and ea...