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Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:23:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️
@mdhughes @jeffzugale @nyrath @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th I talked about the computers vs slide-rules thing regarding Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky a while ago, cause it always amused me:
https://www.tumblr.com/foone/711151376147857408/i-love-how-much-of-a-blindspot-for-the-computer?source=share
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  I love how much of a blindspot for the computer scifi authors had. So in Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky, humanity has developed instant interstellar travel, through what's effectively star gates. Chin…
- Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:38:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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  @nyrath @mdhughes @jeffzugale @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th well, I guess they almost predicted CED, VHD, and that other video-on-vinyl format that fans made in the 2010s.
  But I don't think anyone has tried to put video on a wax cylinder. I should try that.
  
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- Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:38:30 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
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  @foone @mdhughes @jeffzugale @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th
  My favorite example of scifi prediction failure is in "Into the Meteorite Orbit" by Frank K. Kelly (1933).
  https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/techlevel.php#predictfail
  
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- Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 13:02:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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  @nyrath @mdhughes @jeffzugale @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th nah. they're like 2 minutes each, and I think the smallest Doom (already heavily compressed) would take 190 minutes.
  But hey, you could just load 95 wax tapes into your IBM 5150, one after another!
  
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- Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 13:02:30 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
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  @foone @mdhughes @jeffzugale @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th
  Though a wax cylinder probably does not have enough storage to save a copy of Doom...
  
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