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Originally Posted by Richwood
I agree though, to change dates in near contemporary science fiction to try and keep it in the future is dumb and will seldom work. Need a total rewrite to introduce technology advances like personal computers, internet, cellular telephones etc. In 10 years or less need to include self driving cars and who knows what new technology. Science fiction can be so wrong about the future. I remember stories from the 1930s through the 1960s which had engineers in space still using slide rules for doing calculations and huge computers, some still analog. A current cellular phone has far more calculating power than the huge vacuum tube computer I worked on circa 1965, and it was already long obsolete even then.
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Stephen King tried this when he put out the complete and uncut edition of The Stand. The dates were changed from 1980's to 1990's. But there were several little things that weren't caught, like the price of items or being paid a dollar for babysitting.
(I edited your post to just include the part I was responding to. Should this post be a success, perhaps down the road the complete and uncut version can be published.)