Reading Heinlein
In The Cat Who Walks Through Walls awesome Bobby is talking about a data storage device available in our future. We would now call it a data stick or thumb drive.
In the book, the device stores "half a million words". Sheesh, my mid-priced data stick is a gigabyte. We're out racing the masters.
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that is the next book I have in my stack. Heinlein is some great stuff.
I just finished The day after tomorrow. Another timeless epic.
Hammer, you definitely have to read "Number of the Beast" first, if you have not already. Well, I guess you do not have to, but it helps. Kind of. Indirectly.
But, yeah, even a lot of the stuff in all iterations of Star Trek is commonly available these days... and do not even get me started on Star Wars...
That is part of why the big three (Heinlein, Clark and Asimov) are so appealing. They tried to explain the technology the wrote about.
Rather than just "raise shields and engage warp drive" stuff.
Ah yes. The venerable Sony MegaWafers.
Sticks 'em down a compartment in his trick leg. That crazy ol' Richard Ames (aka Colin Campbell).
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