Subj : Re: Technology
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Mar 04 2020 16:47:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 02-28-20  08:31 <=-

 NB>> No doubt.... It's hard to think up things that really aren't thought
 NB>> of at all yet
 JM> Some did get it right with flat screen tv's hanging on a wall.
 JM> I often think inventors get ideas from sci-fi.
 JM> "Hmm, a flat screen tv hanging on a wall.  Wonder if that would
 JM> work?  Let me work on that..."

I'm sure that they do get ideas from sci-fi... remember Dick Tracy's
communicator watch....?  I've seen more than one article in Analog
Science Fiction/Science Fact that list various things that showed up in
various science fiction stories that eventually came to be reality... 

ttyl      neb

.... Inane tagline found.  Abort, Retry, Swipe a better one.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)

.