Enya?
um… I do remember some very small robots leading the girl around
straylight; something like that implies a great deal of miniature work.
Nano, no. But real small. And I dunno if it would fit or not. I really
don't. But it certainly is a good point. There are some other techie things
that are happening today that he either missed or gave a pass to – and I
have no problem with that, because he was able to make me percieve his
world as seamless.
Something that Asimov, Pohl, and (especially) Pournelle regularly slip up
on. Things you expect are techno screwups in popular stuff like "Hunt for
Red October"… and they are there; while Clancy is a fun writer, he's next
to clueless about nuts and bolts of computers/electronics – and he doesn't
take the time or effort to get it right. But in SF, I _expect_ the author
to have taken a _real_ good shot at getting current tech right, and future
tech extrapolatively reasonable – which of course is somewhat in the eye of
the beholder, but not completely.
James Hogan is a good one for fascinating future tech… he tries hard. The
point I was making about Gibson had not as much to do with the fact that he
was making predictions, but that they were clean – and he hadn't the
backround (as far as I can see) for that.
Ben
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