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Originally Posted by Grandma Aubbie
In "Foundations Edge," by Isaac Asimov, The Foundation sends Councilman Trevize and Scientist Pelorat on a mission. Pelorat is amazed that his entire library of books fits on "one small chip" that he could insert into a reader.
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I forgot about that until you mentioned it! I remember thinking that was very cool and I wished for something like it. Ha, and now I do! Science fiction rules!
There's an article in the October-November
Asimov's talking about science fiction and technology. She refers to a book,
Physics of the Impossible, which posits that there are three types of tech in SF --
Class I - Techologies which are impossible today, but don't violate laws of physics
Class II - Tech which sits at the edge of our understanding, which may take thousands of years to eventuate
Class III - Breaking the law of known physics
Some of the things she mentions in the Class I variety are cool, like invisibility cloaks and whatnot, but if this article'd been written twenty years ago it would have been e-readers, for sure!