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Beware: The more you understand about how inaccurate futuristic predictions are, the harder modern sci-fis get to watch. Especially so if you've seen a lot of

• mojuba 11y ago
  Or not necessarily about the present time. For example a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away they had very advanced AIs but no computers or mobile communication (in any practical form) :)
  • VLM 11y ago
    Another example, the universe of Dune had pretty impressive engineering for a universe without computation. Yeah yeah I read the series, don't correct me about the pre Butlerian Jihad era, etc. Dune was mostly a fantasy not sci fi anyway. Note there's hard sci fi and soft sci fi, and a soap opera / action flick which happens to be "in the future" like B5 is not really predictive. I'm just saying that very soft sci fi is indistinguishable from copy and paste style fantasy or historical fiction. Hard sci fi like KSRs Mars Trilogy ages much better than "80s soap opera, on a space ship".
  • dalke 11y ago
    There was mobile communication. Skywalker and C-3PO used a 'comlink' to communicate when Skywalker, etc. were in the garbage mashers. And the Storm Troopers use a comlink, which has a transmitter that breaks down often enough that the Command Office wasn't suspicious when TX-four-one-two couldn't respond. On Hoth, Skywalker on his Tauntaun uses a comlink to talk with Solo. And Solo uses a pocket comlink to talk with Transport to say that he and Leia have been blocked by a collapse of the ice corridor and will be using the Falcon to leave Hoth. There are other examples of comlinks used as practical mobile communication about equivalent to a compact walkie-talkie.