Sci-fi has always accidentally reflected the limited imagination of the era it was written in. My favorite example is Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, written before di

Sci-fi has always accidentally reflected the limited imagination of the era it was written in. My favorite example is Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, written before digital displays were a thing. In the story technology has advanced so far that humans have landed on Mercury for mining, but they have to track their lost robots by manually drawing a pencil graph of their radar pings.