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 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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that's a squeaky robot talking to a ship, not a networked society
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