[ih] Fiction->History

[Leo Vegoda]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:52:41PM -0400, John Day wrote:
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> > On Sep 24, 2015, at 14:40, Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi John:
> > 
> > Ah, if you’re talking 100 years, I agree.  The literature being cited in the discussion was 20 to 40 years old, when it sounds as if we agree, prediction has been feasible.
> 
> Go look at Asimov’s Foundation. The technology of the Galactic empire is really pretty crude, almost no computers, not even jetways for boarding a space ship.

I expect most science fiction writers aren't trying to predict the
future of technology and are instead passing comment on the society
in which they actually live.