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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
On the converse, reading older sci-fi novels leads to another amusement.
I recently read Asimov's Foundation... supposedly takes 10,000 years in the future where humans have colonized the entire galaxy, and yet everyone is still smoking cigars and using microfilms and the sheer lack of females. Is this 10,000 years into the future or 1950s America?
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When I was a kid, I read a book written at a time when slide rules were still in widespread use, but computers had been invented (and were huge power hungry monsters).
In the book, a spaceship pilot was doing complex interstellar navigation calculations with a 3 foot diameter circular slide rule.