I miss a lot of deserved RIP's but then again, this blog is not supposed to be an in memorium kinda place. My heart goes out to those who are great but are probably unnoticed by popular media.
Jerry Pournelle was a great science fiction writer and futurist.
I have posted this trio of gems before in which Pournelle (with the help of Durk Pearson and Tom Snyder) gives us a glimpse of the eventual future. Two things jump off the page. One, in 1979 we did not have a word for a printer. Pournelle describes is as an automatic typewriter.
Second, and this is a smaller matter, is Pournelle telling us we will read newspapers from a glass screen. Of course, he would be right but it still amazes me how fast glass disappeared from our desktops,.
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