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Biggest failure of imagination in old sci-fi is envisioning of future of information. Foundation has printouts, microfilm, 'info capsules'
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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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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?