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DrNefario
Posted 2015-01-23 10:57 AM (#9351 - in reply to #9162)
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Location: UK		The thing that has tripped me up twice so far is that "computer" is a job title. It's cropped up in both my books so far, although it is actually used in both senses in Heinlein's "Space Jockey" in Green Hills of Earth.

Also, everybody smokes, even inside spaceships, and they still seem to use slide rules. I guess those are just signs of the times, but some authors did see past that (Foundation, I seem to remember, has computers with actual interactive displays, albeit only in monochrome). I've only seen a slide rule once, and I have no idea how they work. I'm reading the current book on my unimaginably futuristic touchscreen phone. Sometimes it's nice to feel that we do live in the future.

Edited by DrNefario 2015-01-23 10:58 AM

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