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I Will Fear No Evil
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bookshelves: science-fiction, not-the-whole-truth, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
Apr 07, 2014
bookshelves: science-fiction, not-the-whole-truth, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
Read 2 times. Last read January 1, 1974.
Can Science-Fiction Writers Really Predict the Future? (part 94)
Not, who's just acquired a new Lenovo ThinkPad, has spent the last hour getting familiar with the speech recognition capabilities. She's been reading out bits of text, looking at what comes up on the screen and editing the mistakes, all using nothing but voice commands. After a while, I realized why it seemed oddly familiar: there's a scene early on in this 1970 novel where the hero's sexy PA does exactly the same thing. The way she uses the speech-enabled word-processor is described in considerable detail, and is remarkably similar to what I saw just now. And - if you aren't sufficiently impressed already at Heinlein's skills as a prognosticator - the novel is set in 2015. Spooky or what? In fact, there's only one important detail he gets wrong. Not was fully clothed, while Eunice in the book is wearing nothing but a lot of body makeup and an entrancing smile.
Well, it's hard to score 100% on these things...
Not, who's just acquired a new Lenovo ThinkPad, has spent the last hour getting familiar with the speech recognition capabilities. She's been reading out bits of text, looking at what comes up on the screen and editing the mistakes, all using nothing but voice commands. After a while, I realized why it seemed oddly familiar: there's a scene early on in this 1970 novel where the hero's sexy PA does exactly the same thing. The way she uses the speech-enabled word-processor is described in considerable detail, and is remarkably similar to what I saw just now. And - if you aren't sufficiently impressed already at Heinlein's skills as a prognosticator - the novel is set in 2015. Spooky or what? In fact, there's only one important detail he gets wrong. Not was fully clothed, while Eunice in the book is wearing nothing but a lot of body makeup and an entrancing smile.
Well, it's hard to score 100% on these things...
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January 1, 1974
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February 16, 2009
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February 16, 2009
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October 6, 2010
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April 7, 2014
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April 7, 2014
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science-fiction
April 7, 2014
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not-the-whole-truth
April 7, 2014
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too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
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Men always miss these important details. In fact, until you pointed it out, I hadn't even noticed this intriguing new addition to your wardrobe.
Travelin wrote: "Heinlein was the first enjoyable erotica and one of the only books with any erotica at all in the house when I was a teenager."He is quite clever at packaging smut so that it looks like science-fiction - I also remember appreciating that as a teen.
What "things" does your last sentence refer to?"
Futurological predictions, of course! What did you think I meant? Honestly...
Manny wrote: "...He is quite clever at packaging smut so that it looks like science-fiction ..."There you go: something that's changed and was perhaps not predicted by him: there's no need to disguise the smut nowadays, especially on the net!
Oh, people certainly aren't disguising the smut in the future world this book describes...
notgettingenough wrote: "Actually, I'm wearing one of these, so you never know. You might get lucky.http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style..." ok not, now i can see through my britches
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style...