Presumed Lost--

Yes, RAH was amazing--I won't say "prescient", because his "predictions" were the results of logical thought & extrapolation. I've read most of his works (including Tunnel in the Sky--though it was many years ago), and am continually amazed at how many things I run across that are things he described is his writings.

In one of his essays (collected in Expanded Universe), he notes that when the first guy to attempt to patent a waterbed went to the patent office, he was rejected on the grounds that the fundamental design was already in the public domain, and referred the erstwhile patentee to one of Heinlein's works wherein he described what was essentially a waterbed.

Having a new PC at home, I'm struck repeatedly by the similarity to scenes in Friday where the characters check the custom-delivered morning news & messages on the home computer.

And I just realized I'm wandering terribly off-thread... <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Sorry 'bout that.

David