eldritchhobbit

Thanks - a VERY interesting article. I thought this was especially true - *G*:

"Heinlein had a sweet tooth for knowingness, for demonstrating smartness, especially when it upsets conventional wisdom."

But I was a bit disappointed; from the title I thought it would compare how the future turned out vs. what Heinlein imagined. I actually just re-read "The Door Into Summer", and it was a blast looking at how he imagined 1970 and 2008. The biggest thing that hit me was the absence of the computer and the internet. Being an engineer, he had a very Newtonian view of things, a very nuts-and-bolts imagination about what would be created in the future. So, when he came up with a way of making drafting easier in the future, it ended up being a drafting machine that works like a typewriter: press certain buttons and it daws lines for you. Interesting how it turned out instead!