Biggest failure of imagination in old sci-fi is envisioning of future of information. Foundation has printouts, microfilm, 'info capsules'
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also needed the audience to buy into what was possible. A tablet in the 70s was more unfathomable than space travel.
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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 - 3 more replies
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that's a squeaky robot talking to a ship, not a networked society
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Star Wars is a medieval soap opera set in space. It's not really science fiction. The force is just woo, like our pseudo science.
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I don't really think those are failures of imagination. Limitations of special effects at the time.
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Have to blame that on Akira Kurosawa ; )
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