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Science Fiction When There's Spaceships Already?

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04-10-2011 2:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by ringo
04-10-2011 2:39 PM

ringo writes:
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Tram law writes:
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The cell phone from Star Trek.
Dick Tracy already had a 2-way wrist radio in 1946. It was inspired by existing technology - e.g. the walkie-talkie.
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What I find interesting is where science fiction writers really miss the boat with out-of-date technology.
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A great example was the scifi view of computers, they almost all saw them as getting bigger and bigger physically, some even planet sized.
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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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