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...Birth of Computers...
...source of the movie Soylent Green) predicted a New York City crammed with 35 million people, each allotted a meager four square yards of living space. That novel is set today--in 1999. It was published in 1966. The scenario made sense back then, before the advent of widespread birth control. All you had to do was follow the exponential curves...
...endocrinologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock and C.R. Garcia develop the birth-control pill...
...sleeping pill, thalidomide, is prescribed in Britain and Germany. It is later found to cause severe birth defects and taken off the market...
Along the way, vital components began to shrink: the vacuum tube became the transistor; the transistor led to the microchip; the microchip married the phone and gave birth to the modem. Soon enough, sounds, photos, movies and conversations would be ground down into the smallest components of all: 1s and 0s. Was the digital revolution inevitable? In our brave new wired world, it certainly seems that...