[GreenKeys] Ebay Listing

[Richard Knoppow]

      I know.  I read a lot of this in my teens.  Its surprising what 
they missed but, of course, they were writers and not inventors. The 
general attitude about computers is interesting:  they were envisioned 
as very large machines that would take over the world. Well, I suppose 
they have in a way  but not the way the writers of these stories thought 
they would.   Not much thought that small computers would empower 
individuals rather than enslave them. Someone did give me a couple of 
examples of the contrary but I don't remember them.   Of course, a lot 
of science fiction was just standard plots from other genre transposed 
to a different setting. Not so much difference between a tramp sailing 
ship and a tramp space ship other than visiting people built like jelly 
beans.  I think the main difference between science fiction and science 
phantasy is that the former assumed that the laws of physics would stay 
reasonably fixed to current understanding while the latter didn't care.  
I have long been fascinated by writers and writing. I am a fair 
expository writer but have never been able to do creative writing that 
was anything but drivel.  I would LOVE to be able to write good 
detective stories.

On 6/22/2015 10:38 AM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
> If you read old sci-fi from before the 1970s it is surprising what 
> they imagined, too, like interplanetary & even intersteller spacecraft 
> navigated using published books of tables and slide rules.
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> To: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 11:31 am
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Ebay Listing
>
> I love this.   I don't have any quotes but if you ever look over
> the archive
> of popular technical magazines of the 1930s, especially the
> Hugo Gernsback
> ones, they have a section predicting the world in 25 or
> fifty years.   Its
> amazing what people thought they would want.
>
>
>
>
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL

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