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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Dec 2016
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Dec 2016
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Dec 2016
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Dec 2016
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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.

      10:43 PM - 3 Dec 2016
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        1. Ben Chang‏ @benjaminm3 3 Dec 2016
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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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        2. Ben Chang‏ @benjaminm3 3 Dec 2016
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Dec 2016
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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

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        1. Tom Mullaly‏ @wagefreedom 3 Dec 2016
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          Have to blame that on Akira Kurosawa ; )

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        1. +++ATH0‏ @ram2sun 3 Dec 2016
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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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        2. ZaqAttack David‏ @ZakDavid 4 Dec 2016
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          o rly?pic.twitter.com/ZoSjcbSgny

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Dec 2016
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          that's a squeaky robot talking to a ship, not a networked society

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