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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Things presented in-story as Good Ideas that seem like really Bad Ideas
Date: 9 Sep 2024 18:30:45 -0000
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In article <lk79hhFp0bkU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>Lucky Starr's "Council Of Science", the Venus Belt, the Federation's
>"Prime Directive".  Things like that.
>
>Examples?

When I watched SF as a kid, everybody had some sort of pocket communicating 
device.  Kirk had a communicator, Napoleon Solo had a fountain pen, and 
even Maxwell Smart had a shoephone.

But not ONCE did any of them ever get a call about their car warranty.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."