Biggest failure of imagination in old sci-fi is envisioning of future of information. Foundation has printouts, microfilm, 'info capsules'
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Failure even more stark when you realize Asimov had positronic robots and AGI, but his computing lacked basic modern I/O and networking
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Star Trek is worse. They can beam matter around, but hand each other *individual* documents on tablet thingies that pile up on desks smdh
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Star Wars is easily the worst of all. They have some cool 3d viz tech, but show no signs of networked behavior at all otherwise.
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This is Foundation's Edge (1981) describing 20000 year later galaxy with FTL for both bits and atoms. Printouts and FTL interlibrary loans 😂
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Another gem. "Let me show you my anti-gravity FTL spaceship", "That's nothing, let me show you my 20cm x 20cm 128 GB thumb drive" 😂😂😂
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He also included speech/handwriting to text conversation right? I remember asking my parents if that would ever happen when I was ~8
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Without Asimov we'd not be using the term "Robot." First to bring it into mainstream after its origin in a Russian play.
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Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 has mural to rooms with interactive shows and a very good portrait of current mainstream media
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