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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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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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This is Foundation's Edge (1981) describing 20000 year later galaxy with FTL for both bits and atoms. Printouts and FTL interlibrary loans πŸ˜‚
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