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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I always liked older scifi where the computer is integrated into people's brains. Then they can access anything at any time.
BTW, at least half of the books I have purchased since going ebbok have been collected short stories from the early days. And the 70's. In the former, they drink martinis at lunch and smoke cigarettes, and in the latter, they smoke weed and eat processed futuristic pellet space food.
I blame Mrs. Eddings for my shameful scifi addiction. It was the 1st grade in 1970, and we watched a film of the moon landing. I've been hooked on hard scifi ever since.
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This brings to mind the DC Comics event "DC One Million" which was set in the 853rd Century (1,000,000 months from the first DC published comic book). At that time everyone is mentally connected to all available information via a central data system. One of the worst punishments available is to be disconnected from that system, and be limited to the small amount of data contained in a conventional library (with actual books).