This comes from Robert A. Heinlein's book Friday:
My copy as follows: (C)1982
LCCCN:81-13221 -- ISBN 0-345-30988-X
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This comes from Chapter 22:
...There was no reason for any of us to be bored as we had full
individual terminal service. People are so used to the computer net today that it is easy to forget what a window to
the world it can be---and I include myself. One can grow so canalizied in using a terminal only in certain ways ---
paying bills, making telephone calls, listening to news bulletins --- that one can neglect its richer uses. If a subscriber
is willing to pay for the service, almost anything can be done at a terminal that can be done out of bed.
Live music? I could punch in
a concert going on live in Berkeley this evening, but a concert given ten years ago in London, its conductor long dead, is
just as "live", just as immediate, as any listed on today's program. Electrons don't care. Once data of any
sort go into the net,time is frozen. All that is necessary is to remember that all the endless richs of the past
are available any time you punch for them....
