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anachronisms?

by bealoid <signup@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jan 12, 2008 at 11:05 AM

What devices used in "today's" science fiction will the future people look 
back on and laugh at?


I was listening to some SF thing on the radio last week.  One of the 
characters - in a space ship, between the stars - pulled out a slide rule.
[1]

Any storage media in movies looks a bit odd to me - floppy disks look 
really old, but even standard optical media (which could be some form of 
'super DVD') look old fashioned.  Using a smaller size optical media 
doesn't help either.

Transflash (MicroSD) cards can store a huge amount of information - 4GB? 
8GB? and they're *tiny*.  Smallness isn't great but when I see someone in 
the future pull out a storage mediem the size of a can of soda/pop[2] that

had better store a **huge** amount of data.  Or processing power.  Or
both.


[1] Don't get me wrong, I love slide rules.  But come on, even the people 
who use them think that they're not used very often.

[2] See how neatly I avoid the great soda vs pop debate?




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bealoid <signup@[EMAIL  2008-01-12 11:05:33 
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John Schilling <schill  2008-01-12 07:07:49 
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mcv <mcvmcv@[EMAIL PRO  2008-01-12 21:11:47 
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bernardZ <BernardZ@[EM  2008-01-13 19:48:31 
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Erik Max Francis <max@  2008-01-13 01:48:56 
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Steve Hix <sehix@[EMAI  2008-01-13 10:52:36 
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mcv <mcvmcv@[EMAIL PRO  2008-01-14 07:57:57 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-13 16:45:42 
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John Schilling <schill  2008-01-15 16:55:12 
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nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-14 08:39:06 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-14 14:50:57 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-15 21:46:50 
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John Schilling <schill  2008-01-16 17:34:13 
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bernardZ <BernardZ@[EM  2008-01-17 20:43:02 
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John Schilling <schill  2008-01-17 17:54:26 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-15 21:48:24 
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James Burns <burns.87@  2008-01-16 11:26:30 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-16 15:13:32 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-16 15:12:36 
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John <themasterJ@[EMAI  2008-01-17 15:59:20 
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bernardz <bernardz@[EM  2008-01-17 21:05:37 
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Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-01-12 17:08:29 
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wrosecrans <wrosecrans  2008-01-12 15:47:04 
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Eivind Kjorstad <eivin  2008-01-15 06:42:36 
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David Johnston <david@  2008-01-15 07:15:38 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-13 19:48:23 
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Steve Hix <sehix@[EMAI  2008-01-13 17:20:31 
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Samuel Penn <sam@[EMAI  2008-01-13 21:18:01 
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Dr J R Stockton <jrs@[  2008-01-14 19:36:25 
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bernardZ <BernardZ@[EM  2008-01-15 21:00:34 
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Erik Max Francis <max@  2008-01-15 03:02:20 
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nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-15 11:21:20 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-14 23:53:37 
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bernardZ <BernardZ@[EM  2008-01-15 20:52:14 
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David Johnston <david@  2008-01-15 07:12:27 
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Erik Max Francis <max@  2008-01-15 03:01:00 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-16 01:13:49 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-16 07:20:28 
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bernardZ <BernardZ@[EM  2008-01-16 23:25:13 
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Michael Ash <mike@[EMA  2008-01-16 10:55:13 
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Dr J R Stockton <jrs@[  2008-01-18 22:05:11 

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