Sujet : Re: pseudo-YASID: Spang on, but no cigar
De : robertaw (at) *nospam* drizzle.com (Robert Woodward)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 24. Dec 2024, 06:49:28
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In article <
5i9kmjpsetcoes1kiquoat7g4jsbhradg9@4ax.com>,
Joy Beeson <
jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
In a story I wrote on a typewriter, I predicted that everyone in my
far-future setting would carry a pocket terminal.
I also said that a terminal that included a sound system would be
twice as bulky as everyone else's. (The length of sound waves
controls the sizes of microphones and speakers, so they can't be
tiny.)
Are there published stories in which predictions are laughably
correct?
Don't you mean laughably INcorrect? After all, every cellphone has a
microphone and speaker and it is the size of the video screen that
determines the size of smartphones.
-- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.-------------------------------------------------------Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com