Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with The Wind [1936] (New York Warner, 1993), p. 5. 

Earlier fantastic claims that 24,000 simultaneous telephone calls on a single pair of fibers al rates of up to 1.7 billion bits per second could be made, that full-length motion pictures such as Gone with the Wind could be fed to a home memory unit in one second, or that major symphonies, such as Beethoven s Fifth, could be transmitted in less than 1/50 of a second have already been surpassed. For example, here is listing of some hero experiments illustrating an optical fiber s capability as of the year 2000. 

Fully Automated Synthesizers (Gone with the Wind)... 

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