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Monday, July 29, 2002

Douglas Adams predicted "Rendezvous"
This is neat. In a 1989 letter to MacUser Magazine, deceased author Douglas Adams predicted "Rendezvous," the zero-configuration networking technology that Apple touted earlier this month and will ship in Jaguar next month. He wrote, "All I want is to print from my portable. (Poor baby.) That isn't all I want, in fact. I want to be able regularly to transfer my address book and diary stacks backward and forward between my portable and my [other Mac] ... I just want to carry it into the same room. Bang. There it is. It's on the desktop. This is infra-red talk. Or maybe it's microwave talk." And that, of course, is exactly the kind of functionality that Rendezvous provides. Nice job, Douglas.

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