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Was watching #StarTrek Discovery last night and saw an example of a common #SciFi scene that irks me: "Oh, is that a book, I've never seen one in person before, how quaint, isn't that inefficient mass to storage..."

It bugged me in #TheExpanse too.

Because like, we've been doing digital computers for a while now and if anything, storage has gotten more volatile, not less. Meanwhile, I'm just someone who wanders used bookstores and buys cool things and I have 19th Century #books. Intact.

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And like, I also love my eReader, but like, it's my second one in the 15 years I've been doing ebooks and the first one basically got bricked because a software update to improve the TLS version was unprofitable.

(Kobo Aura H2O has been going strong for a decade though)

But like, Sci Fi's obsession with "the next thing is always better in all ways" just isn't true.

Like okay, nylon guitar strings over gut are pretty much 100 percent improvement but everything else is tradeoffs.