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Katherine predicts future technology?
« on: February 11, 2011, 04:36:26 AM »
In book 16 when they are discussing the chat, Ax finds it very backwards for humans to use computers when we have phones and books.
When the book was written in 1998,  everybody would have thought that it's funny that Ax considers telephone and books more high-tech than computers. But now there are smartphones which are getting better that computers, and ebooks are getting more and more better.
It looks like Katherine unknowingly predicted the future.

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Re: Katherine predicts future technology?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 08:13:38 AM »
That's the beauty of science fiction. Look at how many devices we have now that Star Trek proposed in the 60's. Heck, my clamshell phone was inspired by the communicators of that show.

And the Iphone is a few apps away from being able to pull of the Tricorder effects.

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Re: Katherine predicts future technology?
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 11:14:45 AM »
Well, the WAA chatroom is practically Twitter.

Didn't KA predict e-cigarettes in Remnants?

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« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 03:59:40 AM »
Jules Verne predicted a lot of things (travels to the Moon, under the ocean, etc.), so why not KAA? Myabe in 10 or 20 years we'll see things that the Yeerks or the Andalites were using in Animorphs, and we didn't think it was possible...
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Re: Katherine predicts future technology?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2011, 05:48:16 AM »
I didn't mean that I am surprised by this. I was just posting what I suddenly noticed while reading the "descrambling the WAA chat" topic.
Let's hope that she would successfully predict the morphing technology.(without the 2 hour limit.)

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« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 09:45:27 AM »
Yeah, that would be great ^^
Z-space and spaceships too :P
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Re: Katherine predicts future technology?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2015, 02:08:28 AM »
In book 16 when they are discussing the chat, Ax finds it very backwards for humans to use computers when we have phones and books.
When the book was written in 1998,  everybody would have thought that it's funny that Ax considers telephone and books more high-tech than computers. But now there are smartphones which are getting better that computers, and ebooks are getting more and more better.
It looks like Katherine unknowingly predicted the future.

The type of book Ax was impressed by was the old fashioned paper and ink book!  At least that was what I was assuming!