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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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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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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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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Trying to recall the Heinlein novel where spacefarers read the binary LED lights off the computer & looked up navigation in vast tomes.
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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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If the golden age had had a glimpse of networking cyberpunk wouldn't have been so revolutionary. It would have evolved differently.
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It's interesting material for an alternate history thing. How would have sci-fi itself happened, under such an scenario?
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