I might have been the fan who called John Shoch and Jon Hupp’s attention to John Brunner.  At some point, Brunner came to visit PARC and we had a nice discussion about how Brunner had been able to anticipate this aspect of networking.

-Larry

> On 2019, Nov 4, at 2:24 PM, Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The John F. Shoch and Jon Hupp paper extensively credits Brunner, and uses quotes from the book as section intro's.
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> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:58 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com <mailto:bakul@bitblocks.com>> wrote:
> I am surprised no one mentioned The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, published in 1975. Excerpt:
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