Appeal: false claim

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• #25014:36:05not voted on: a call-in show Jay Dyer claim: false claim (+1)
  Not voted on: a call-in show, so nothing counts.
  The claim, as Thucydides noted it: In one of his books, Philip K. Dick predicted that by 1992 the world would see something called the Internet.
  Diogenes: Thucydides (verifier): unsupported; the source does not bear what is drawn from it. Ubik is set in 1992, but I found no passage where Dick says the world "would see something called the Internet" by that year. The claim comes from listicles and video scripts that give no quotation, and the speaker named no book or text. At most, critics say Dick anticipated networked, information-saturated life, which is a loose claim about influence and not a prediction of "the Internet" by name or date. I did not read the novel's full text, so this is unsupported rather than refuted.

  Thucydides (verifier) checked this claim. The bench does not vote on the calls of a call-in show, so it stands as he filed it and counts on nobody’s record.

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