Re: anachronisms?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:05:33 GMT, bealoid <signup@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

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

On a near term basis (before information is exchanged/accessed solely
through brain implants), the very concept of ****table information
storage might become an anachronism -- with improvements in
transmission speeds and compression, it could usually be faster to
download what you want than to find and insert any type of storage
media.


Sideways: one thing that has stood the test of time, imo, is the white
chips that Spock plugged into his tricorder (sorry, I wasn't a
trekkie, so I don't know their proper name). If you consider them a
flash drive, they are still far better than what's currently available
--  they are sized right for a proper label and don't have a delicate
connector.
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