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?
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>
>I was listening to some SF thing on the radio last week.  One of the 
>characters - in a space ****p, between the stars - pulled out a slide
rule.
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>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 fa****oned.  Using a smaller size optical media 
>doesn't help either.

Star Trek did well in that regard.  They had these little
unidentifiable things that they stuck in slots when they felt the need
to.  It worked.  I don't think they'll ever look out of date.