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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by dunnevens on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:46PM (#18424150)
Reminds me of an old scifi story. Someone in a far future or advanced alien society runs across a paper book. "A means of conveying information without needing power and without the risk of surveillance? Excellent!" (paraphrased from memory).
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by taneq on Saturday November 10, 2018 @08:02PM (#18424429)
There was also that (Asimov? Clarke?) story about a space ship which has its computer knocked out by a meteoroid and can't navigate back to Earth until someone on-board turns out to know how to use an abacus.
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by fractallyte on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:31AM (#18425260)
"Into the Comet", Arthur C Clarke (1960)
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by avian on Sunday November 11, 2018 @08:28AM (#18426266)
"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov also has a similar premise. It seems that the idea of forgetting basic mathematics due to computers was quite popular in science fiction at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by asg on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:48PM (#18424388)
There a great Asimov story on these lines. Its called 'The fun they had'. Highly recommended. I read it aeons ago as a kid, and its stuck with me ever since.
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by exikyut on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:54PM (#18424190)
I like How Wall-E played that concept really hard.
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by jacobush on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:32PM (#18424339)
It did?
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by ballenf on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:42AM (#18425167)
https://youtu.be/lqDhWTgOAiY

Captain is handed a manual when plant life is discovered. Took him a second to stop talking to the book and start using his hands on the pages. It was a pretty quick scene, but humorous.

Side note, the Wall-E short is great and one of the best Pixar shorts, imo.

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by drkrab on Sunday November 11, 2018 @04:55AM (#18425658)
Reminds me of this classic

https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ

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