tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post7950465515654703460..comments2024-03-28T07:57:49.338+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: The Future Through The PastKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-75097492954016876452022-11-10T01:56:05.790+00:002022-11-10T01:56:05.790+00:00Kaor, Jim!
Sometimes I have to sign for something...Kaor, Jim!<br /><br />Sometimes I have to sign for something using my finger--and that always results in a wretched illiterate looking scrawl which disgusts me. Give me a pen or stylus anytime!<br /><br />Ad astra! SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-16462214303678038352022-11-09T19:41:38.212+00:002022-11-09T19:41:38.212+00:00"characters in Jerry Pournelle's CoDomini..."characters in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium future history have multipurpose pocket computers but write on them with styluses."<br /><br />That is now an option for some computer tablets.<br />When I'm tutoring math or physics online, I keep thinking I should get such a device. I first thought that should be possible & desirable when talking about physics assignments over the phone with other students in the 1970s. (I think that was before I read TMiGE.)Jim Baerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182949391365921637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-42913263398392395322016-03-07T15:14:41.894+00:002016-03-07T15:14:41.894+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Anderson's Technic History lacks ...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Anderson's Technic History lacks one bit of technology which continues to somewhat jar me when I remember it: no cellphones or ipads! I first clearly came across that idea from reading Niven/Pournelle's THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE in 1975, from the pocket computers carried by the characters. I'm rather sorry Poul Anderson didn't try to work in pocket computers/cell phones into his later Technic stories, beginning with A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS.<br /><br />And air cars remains one bit of futuristic technology I covet! (Smiles)<br /><br />But I think Poul Anderson was one of the earliest SF authors to use the concept of cloning in his works. ENSIGN FLANDRY mentions how a body's DNA/genetic pattern was used for "regrowing" lost limbs and organs (altho the word "cloning" was not used in that book). I have read about actual research in which cells taken from one organ were cloned to form additional cells of that same organ. A hundred years from now cloning of the kind mentioned in ENSIGN FLANDRY might be practical.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com