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(The traffic jam quote is from Frederik Pohl.)

• tialaramex 5y ago
  There's a whole chain of this thinking in SF. Asimov was the first to use the analogy in the 1950s though he never chooses the exact phrase "traffic jam": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/10/23/traffic/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/10/23/traffic/ Pohl in the late 1960s acknowledges that he isn't the first to have this idea, but does actually use "traffic jam": “Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam” I rather like Heinlein who a little earlier (1966) suggests SF would have predicted something more interesting, instead of car -> traffic jam, Heinlein says good SF would have predicted car -> teenage fumblings in borrowed car.