Re: EchoBay.com & The Pez Candy Dispenser

Keith F. Lynch filted:
>
>In 1957 Isaac Asimov wrote a story that mentioned a pocket computer.
>It was set in the distant future, after thousands of years of work on
>miniaturization.  But he later said it was intended to be completely
>absurd, a joke.  After all, the next step in the story after the
>pocket computer was to shrink them to zero size, i.e. to do away with
>computers entirely, as people learn to do arithmetic without computers.
>
>Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.

On the other hand, I was looking at someone's Blackberry the other day,
and it
hit me that even Roddeberry didn't think of putting the communicator and
the
tricorder into a single device....

R H "resisting purchase until the phaser attachment comes out" Draney


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