[katzenjam]

Extraordinary that the author of this prophetic piece of social commentary was also one of the inventors of packet switching!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran

The diagrams of centralised, decentralised and distributed networks from his 1963 RAND paper "Introduction to Distributed Communications" will be familiar to many.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/pubs/rese...

Here's the paper. If you ever hear someone say the Internet was designed to survive a nuclear strike, this is the research they're talking about.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3420.html

[dredmorbius]

As I've said previously: the next time someone asks "who could have predicted the downsides of the Internet?", you can tell them: the guy who invented it, in the 1960s.