The accelerating growth of technology means science fiction will have an ever shorter shelf life.
Can you think of any scifi over 50 years old that hasn't been made implausible by technological change since it was written?
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To be fair this happened when the mobile got common - classes of plot just ceased to exist. Same for Facebook. No more losing track of loves
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Not 50 years, just 23, but Permutation City still holds up! :)
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Though written >100 years ago, I remember "The Machine Stops" being uncannily ahead of its time: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html …
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