Re:Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015)
by coldtea on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:40AM
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>More than Internet the combination of internet and smartphones. Someone in Africa could get the advice of a doctor in the USA just with the push of a button
Not like they can afford that advice. Or that it would do them much without treatment. Outside of special upper class cases this just doesn't happen.
>People have access to the biggest encyclopedia thanks to a less than a pound item
Which they mainly use to settle BS quarrels about who did what, and to serve as a replacement from actually studying something...
More than Internet the combination of internet and smartphones. Someone in Africa could get the advice of a doctor in the USA just with the push of a button. People have access to the biggest encyclopedia thanks to a less than a pound item.
The fact we can easily have a calculator, GPS system, access to most information in the world, have an audio and video conference with people from all around the world thanks to some small item we carry in our pockets is now taken for granted but it was missed by most scifi writers until the 90s.