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   Message 2,122 of 3,290   
   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   12 Jan 14 13:43:09   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science, alt.sci.physics.new-theories   
   XPost: sci.physics   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:12:56 -0700, Greg Goss   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.science,alt.sci.physics.new-theo   
   ies,rec.arts.sf.misc,sci.physics:   
      
   > "Mike Dworetsky"  wrote:   
      
   >> In the early 1980s a Niven-Pournell novel (King David's   
   >> Spaceship) had Imperial naval officers walking around a   
   >> city on a newly rediscovered "lost" colony planet, using   
   >> wireless notebooks for information and communication,   
   >> which sounded a lot like tablets, iPads or iPhones.   
      
   > I thought that KDS was just Pournelle.  But I'm too lazy   
   > to look it up.   
      
   It is.  And as _A Spaceship for the King_ it first appeared   
   in 1971 in Analog.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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