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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
It would be cool to see e-documents or even other forms of e-information show up in descriptions of future worlds.
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I know what you mean... I rarely read much material with e-books and such in them... people more often than not get their entertainment by watching (or participating in) 3-D dramas and such, and computers just tell them verbally what they want to learn. Interestingly, this is usually the case in SF whether we're talking about a decade from now, or a few centuries.
And on television, most SF shows have given up on books, except for
Star Trek, where they have been "rediscovered" as the most superior form of entertainment. (Well, they are serious history freaks on that series, anyway...)
I've dropped e-books into my own stories, of course, but generally as background material... not something that figured heavily into the plot, or influenced the characters. But a story about a character whose life is transformed by e-books might not be a bad idea (and you heard it here first!). And it doesn't even have to be SF: An individual in a remote part of the world, with few realistic prospects, could conceivably have his or her life transformed from bleak existence to fame and fortune by access to e-books today.
(I'd work on that, but I've got 2 stories and a site redesign ahead of it... it'll have to get in line!)