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Not long ago I read a novel set in the near future (mid-21st century). My suspension of disbelief was totally fine with time travel, an implanted "universal translator" of sorts, major medical adv...
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2019-12-08T03:12:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Not long ago I read a novel set in the near future (mid-21st century). My suspension of disbelief was totally _fine_ with time travel, an implanted "universal translator" of sorts, major medical advances... but balked at plot points that depended on people being limited to land-lines (no mobile communication devices, and no "tech failure" that eliminated them). The novel was written in 1992, just a few years before cell phones hit the consumer market. As a writer, what can I do to help my near-future stories age well? Do I just need to be a great visionary (or settle for getting it wrong, since I'm probabably not), or are there things I can do to track "up and coming, society-changing" trends?
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2013-11-19T22:50:08Z (almost 11 years ago)
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