alt Hacker NewsAnd Jules verne predicted rockets. I still move that it's quantitative predictions not qualitative.
I mean, all Kindle does for me is save me space. I don't have to store all those books now.
Who predicted the humble internet forum though? Or usenet before it?
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ghaff • yesterday at 1:03 PM
Kindles are just books and books are already mostly fairly compact and inexpensive long-form entertainment and information.
They're convenient but if they went away tomorrow, my life wouldn't really change in any material way. That's not really the case with smartphones much less the internet more broadly.
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Well, there was Ender's Game, it came in '85. Usenet did exist at that point, though. Don't know if the author had encountered it.
The Shockwave Rider was also remarkable prescient.