Just taking the first one - "may have invented music sampling" in 1959. "Musique Concrete" was doing this in the 30s and 40s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concrète

(The rest of them seem to be not unreasonable claims though.)

Another fascinating figure from that era is Chi-Tien Liu, whose shop CTL Electronics worked on the tech side of a lot of video art projects. The New York Times wrote about him at https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/nyregion/video-art-conser...

They now work on preserving many of these works, which often require CRTs and other now-vintage hardware.

CTL's newsletter and other publications from that era, like Radical Software and Guerrilla Television, have a 2600-style mix of tech advice and social theory. Nam June Paik contributed to many of them.

If you ever go to a museum and there is Nam June Paik exhibit on display, see if you can see the back. There are often interesting tidbits in the wiring and even sticky notes from him about how to set up and troubleshoot the art.

All the tech and theory was already out there. There was no shortage of visionaries. Take for example Engelbart's Mother of all Presentations (1968). Paik, like many artist showed that art and poetry is in that domain. In the early days there was alot of talk about abstract capabilities and not much concrete play.

A lot of people predicted the Internet in the 60's and 70's.

All you had to do was be an avid sci-fi reader.

In fact, a lot of the world we take for granted today was predicted by sci-fi authors. Speculative fiction is how the horizon gets brought near.

Anyone has a link for the FORTRAN video with the datadump ? could not find it on the broadband communication network.

In regard to the author’s call for artwork: see ‘generative’ art and related communities including #plottertwitter.

The realm of generative/interactive/media art is very strong these days, particularly thanks to accessible software like Processing and p5.js.

correct me if i'm wrong but i find a lot of buddhism makes at least some sense in fields of highly advanced technology (like quantum physics). of course there's the obvious counterargument that any prediction or claim that's vague to an extent makes sense in a wide range of settings.