Re: sci-fi missing the tech advances: Can't find it now, but I recently saw a cover from a '50s sci-fi magazine. There's a space pirate leering through a porthole, with a slide rule in his teeth.
Second thought on failures to predict: I graduated college in 1990, with a degree in military history, and a minor in national security policy, with a touch of Russian language. Unfortunately, it was in Dec. 1990, after the Baltics had started revolting, the Wall had come down, and Saddam had shifted the strategic focus of the US. No hiring at DoD for people like me, nor CIA, nor anywhere else. Ooops.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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