Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: An SFnal moment Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:58:18 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:58:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1284c685f7ea53d7256acf5771fa2189"; logging-data="851154"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19BcucyFA1tqLKykbA30HvjoWmrBBiwjws=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qzIA9wK4LzAgdffVGNlDYjzDtj4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1547 On 13/08/2024 11:13, David Duffy wrote: > Reading a paperback in the bath for the first time in a few years (Ken MacLeod's > _Beyond the Hallowed Sky_) where they are looking condescendingly at Jenkins's > Huawei 7G phone - I keep looking up to the page header to see if it's 7 o'clock > yet. The time should be up there next to the page number... > > Cheers, David Duffy The bit in Asimov's "The Fun They Had" where the future-world kids find a n actualbook and try to see how you make it go.