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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Should have left alone. So what if it seems dated today? So do most SF novels written at least a couple of decades ago, unless they totally skip anything remotely technical.
C.J. Cherryh was mentioned; those "tapes" in most of her books really grate nowadays. Still, to try to replace the then-current technology with the now-current technology is a bad decision. It will seem dated again 10-20 years from now, and so on... There's nothing to be done, it's just the way it is with technology and books.
Perhaps we should replace horses with cars in all books written before the 20th century...
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I reread some of the CJ Cherryh books I've got recently and quite enjoyed the 'tape' references. It's starting to sound exotic and unusual to my ears as you no longer come across it in day to day conversation. So for me it's wrapping around back to science-fiction-ey.
Andrew