Failure even more stark when you realize Asimov had positronic robots and AGI, but his computing lacked basic modern I/O and networking
Biggest failure of imagination in old sci-fi is envisioning of future of information. Foundation has printouts, microfilm, 'info capsules'
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Makes one wonder what we're surely missing right now and will seem obvious in a few decades.
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@benjaminm3 Neuromancer was just 3 years later! I am a huge Asimov/Foundation fan, but this is why cyberpunk disrupted old-school sci-fi -
One of the most memorable scenes in 'Neuromancer' involves PAYPHONES
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love that the psychohistory is a cube of algorithms, copying is so cheap
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I stacked my CS with Quantified Sociology undergrad and grad work almost solely due to these series'.
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@benjaminm3 .@vgr Astronauts in Kubrick's "2001" used tablets, actually. (1968)pic.twitter.com/ghjT90v06B
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@vgr another failure? Robots as stand-alone entities, and not the corporate appendages they actually are.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Same painful problems with Stanislaw Lem's work: reels of mag tape featured prominently.
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c.f. Dune. Are you a J.G. Ballard fan, by chance?
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I've read dune, but not Ballard
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