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> From: "stewartdd2002" <aeduin@...>
> Date: 2008/11/19 Wed PM 01:07:15 GMT
> To: Survivorstvseries@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Survivorstvseries] Re: BBC news this morning
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> Re: BBC news this morning
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> I suspect that the Internet would die naturally as sections broke
> down.
> I wonder how long the phone network would last. Don't think we'll get
> the Ray Bradbury type secenario as in his Martian Chronicles of phones
> ringing all over the planet but I expect there would be some freak
> bits surviving for some time.
>
> A point to ponder, as the new generation are internet and texting
> orientated I wonder if that would be how they would conceive of
> reestablishing communication ie reinventing letters and a postal
> service but this time one where letters were delivered to central
> mailbox depositories and collected from them. Perhaps the earliest
> form of fax might be the next stage used to communicate at a distance
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> eg. http://www.hffax.de/html/hauptteil_faxhistory.htm
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> Then some form of jellygraph duplication could multiply copies for
> distribution locally. Who knows we might even see the reestablishment
> of the learned society next.
>
> Edwin
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