Don't you send faxes from the beach?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvv6HTja4QU …
Typewriters on the moon. I can reread and enjoy many of the books I loved as a kid, but rarely the SF ones, because the progress of technology has filled them with latent anachronisms.pic.twitter.com/qLgYRenC2R
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Amazingly you could actually do this
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It's like the SF uncanny valley, but an erosion based one.
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Dude, they were smoking on the moon in that show...
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Except Dune, which still reads like a sci-fi written today
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Dune is predicated on the selective abolition of many advanced technologies and a return to relatively archaic social and political norms. So, it fits.
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Parable of the Sower is great at this. It has a tricky job because it's 30 years in the future, and portraying civilizational decline, but not collapse. Even factors in inflation in a way that feels plausible.
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the anachronisms are part of the fun.
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there's a lot of poignancy in these "delusions" of retro-futurism ever look at the old covers of popular science from the 50s?pic.twitter.com/1sZBuk5qWS
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For over 20 minutes of my life. What a waste of time!pic.twitter.com/OJWJ6yYKoR
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