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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Maybe... but still, I reread The Foundation Trilogy recently, and couldn't help but find the ideal of going through book tapes in a library very jarring in a not quaint sort of way. Also navigation without the help of computers (i.e., several places where they spent days calculating Hyperspace jumps are mentioned), etc.
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I guess that it is because I'm not a native English speaker, but it's easy for me to pretend that "tape" doesn't describe what we call a tape but some future version of digitized books. And since I don't use GPS, I don't see a problem with not navigating with the help of computers.