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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
It does suggest that what we think of as SF may be in store for a sea-change, away from neuron-snapping quantum physics exposition and toward simply accepting and using the tech at hand.
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I think this is one reason why Bester's stories don't seem outdated. Asimov and Niven - among others - were also pretty good at presenting us with the tech - the positronic brain or general products hulls - and basically leaving them at that.
It seems like so much of the sf I used to read couldn't avoid explaining too much, and anachronistically at that: "The starship's vortilizer - similar to the carburetor on a mid-20th century automobile...". And star trek (especially TNG and beyond) was notorious for this.