Comment by nottorp
5 days ago
That was exactly my point.
Funny, I had "The collected stories of Frank Herbert" as my next read on my tablet. Here's a juicy quote from like the third screen of the first story:
"The bedside newstape offered a long selection of stories [...]. He punched code letters for eight items, flipped the machine to audio and listened to the news while dressing."
Anything qualitative there? Or all of it quantitative?
Story is "Operation Syndrome", first published in 1954.
Hey, where are our glowglobes and chairdogs btw?
Hah, can't resist posting even if this story is old and dead by now.
Went further in Herbert's shorts volume and I just ran into a scene where people are preparing to leave Earth on a colony ship to seed some distant world...
... and they still have human operator assisted phone calls.