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Old 12-14-2011, 04:33 PM   #120
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
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.]
Frederik Pohl The Age of the Pussyfoot 1965

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