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To: Dead Corpse
Now you are just being deliberately obtuse.

No, I am not. Nor am I being dishonest. I made the statement that Science Fiction writers failed to predict the personal computer. You then, in reply, list:

The Datasphere, personal terminals, virtual reality, human consciuosness in electronic form...

as those had also been missed, and then commented:

Read more. You've obviously missed some...

I merely questioned if you thought those had been missed by Science Fiction writers, which is what you implied. Had you said "yes" I was intending to direct you to some writing that included some of those on the list... written prior to their development... for your enjoyment.

50 posted on 07/08/2007 2:26:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: Swordmaker
Never saw Forbidden Planet did you? Star Trek? Frank Herberts Dune and the prohibition on "machines that think as men do". Metropolis.

And no, things like "personal terminals" ect... were in fact predicted long before it was thought technology would ever beb able to come up with such things. L. Neil Smith predicted the Internet a decade and a half before the public knew what a personal computer was.

51 posted on 07/08/2007 3:15:49 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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