And Alay Kays Dynabook proposal [1] was written in 1972, based on work dating back to the late 60's.
There's the interesting question of what developments Clarke were aware of at the time, but yes, multiple people were envisioning these things back then.
Many of them were also extrapolating from Vannevar Bush's Memex, as described in As We May Think, in the Atlantic in 1945 [2] taking account the intervening advances in technology.
There's the interesting question of what developments Clarke were aware of at the time, but yes, multiple people were envisioning these things back then.
Many of them were also extrapolating from Vannevar Bush's Memex, as described in As We May Think, in the Atlantic in 1945 [2] taking account the intervening advances in technology.
[1] http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html
[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...