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Reminds me of an old scifi story. Someone in a far future or advanced alien society runs across a paper book. "A means of conveying information without needing
by dunnevens 8y ago
Reminds me of an old scifi story. Someone in a far future or advanced alien society runs across a paper book. "A means of conveying information without needing power and without the risk of surveillance? Excellent!" (paraphrased from memory).
- exikyut 8y agoI like How Wall-E played that concept really hard.
- jacobush 8y agoIt did?
- ballenf 8y agohttps://youtu.be/lqDhWTgOAiY https://youtu.be/lqDhWTgOAiY Captain is handed a manual when plant life is discovered. Took him a second to stop talking to the book and start using his hands on the pages. It was a pretty quick scene, but humorous. Side note, the Wall-E short is great and one of the best Pixar shorts, imo.
- drkrab 8y agoReminds me of this classic https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ
- asg 8y agoThere a great Asimov story on these lines. Its called 'The fun they had'. Highly recommended. I read it aeons ago as a kid, and its stuck with me ever since.
- taneq 8y agoThere was also that (Asimov? Clarke?) story about a space ship which has its computer knocked out by a meteoroid and can't navigate back to Earth until someone on-board turns out to know how to use an abacus.
- fractallyte 8y ago"Into the Comet", Arthur C Clarke (1960)
- avian 8y ago"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov also has a similar premise. It seems that the idea of forgetting basic mathematics due to computers was quite popular in science fiction at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power