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In 1934 Northwestern University Predicted Learning Via The Internet

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In 1934 Northwestern University Predicted Learning Via The Internet

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WHO foresaw the internet? Thank to Paleofuture, we know it to be WAlter Dill Scott in this 1934 piece for Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine. Scott, was president of Northwestern University when he peered into the rosy-fingered future.

With radio, fax machines, TVs and pictures, students could learn anywhere. A the mag noted:

The university of twenty-five years from now will be a different looking place, says President Scott of Northwestern. Instead of concentrating faculty and students around a campus, they will “commute” by air, and the university will be surrounded by airports and hangars. The course will be carried on, to a large extent, by radio and pictures. Facsimile broadcasting and television will enlarge greatly the range of a library; and research may be carried on by scholars at great distances.

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Posted: 31st, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment