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by blackiron 5370 days ago
I doubt that any sci-fi writer wrote about you buying shoes and finding old friends.. which is the point of the article.
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...except that one guy doing the screenplay for I, Robot.

:(

True, it's a different, less sexy form of innovation. My iPhone and iPad would have seemed like science fiction 10 years ago, though.
Nah, it's not really that big a stretch of the imagination between the Titanium Powerbook and an iPad/iPhone.