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I guess this is why there isn't hard science fiction anymore: nobody knows anymore if a toy is one thousands years in the future or it was invented yesterday :-

• junon 5y ago
  That's exciting to me, maybe I'm looking at it wrong though.
• ip26 5y ago
  I read my son a fantasy book featuring lots of magic. I was a little surprised at how he didn't bat an eye at any of the magic. Halfway through I realized the fantastical crystal ball the characters were using is not fantastical to my son at all- he makes video calls on a tablet every day.
  • flyinghamster 5y ago
    It also brings to mind the palantír in The Lord of the Rings and Gandalf's advice that it's perilous to use devices of a deeper art than you know. Tolkien could have just as easily be writing about today's internet and its disinformation epidemic.
• bpiche 5y ago
  What did they say, cyberpunk never died, it just stopped being fiction?
  • cyberpunk 5y ago
    Can confirm…