[extropy-chat] Science Fiction comes to life

[Damien Broderick]

Oh, and by the way

>here are some that are not as well known from [Verne's] book
>"Paris in the 20th Century":
>
>fax machines ("photographic telegraphy permitted
>transmission of the facsimile of any form of writing
>or illustration")

>Keep in mind it was written in 1863, around the time
>of the American Civil War.

The fax machine was patented in 1843.

http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/secret_life_of_the_fax_machine.shtml

Damien Broderick