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Originally Posted by librarianchat
Isn't he in the field of sci-fi too? How could he not predict something this easy?
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Science fiction is horrible at prediction.
Which is fine; it's not in the prediction business, it's in the story business.
[In 1980, there were tons of sf books about space travel and time travel and alien life - but I can't think of anyone who accurately predicted the cellphone/internet/computer/smartphone/always connected existence that has become the dominant paradigm of the last 20 years.]