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:

The John F. Shoch and Jon Hupp paper extensively credits Brunner, and uses quotes from the book as section intro's.

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:58 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
I am surprised no one mentioned The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, published in 1975. Excerpt: