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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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He didn't predict computers very well, did he?I guess, robots with "positronic brains" might count. But here we have a sci-fi author - possibly the first or second one I ever read (it's a choice between him and Arthur C Clarke) who wrote about technology that would allow walnut-sized nuclear-powered personal force fields (Foundation and Empire) but could not conceive of technology allowing computers to become smaller. Indeed, the "AC" range of computers culminated in the Universal AC (The Last Question) which was so large it took up several orders of higher dimensions.
It's funny that he just didn't see computers becoming tiny, and ubiquitous.
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