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If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

~David Gerrold

Topics: Able Actually Be Different Car Copy Different Driving Five Four Future Going Got Hours Idea Jet Kid Kind Like London New New York Pick Plane Popular Say Science Something Take Up Used Were Would Years York You

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When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.

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Topics: Also Anyone Anyone Else Asking Else Look Night Out Relation Sky Them Up Who Wonder

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I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

~David Gerrold

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There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

~David Gerrold

Topics: Adventure Again Before Books Commercial Fiction Last Like Look Mcdonalds Never Once Read Same Sci-Fi Science Science Fiction Solve Star Star Trek Trek Two Way Where World You

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In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

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Topics: Caring Cultural Culture Great Guardians Heritage In The Past Library Maintained Nurtured Past Result Selecting Tending Works

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Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.

~David Gerrold

Topics: Also Become Books Creating Evolved Experience Forms Just More Movies New New Forms Over Own Radio Read Sharing Something Specific Television Than Time Unique Way Will

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I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

~David Gerrold

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When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

~David Gerrold

Topics: After Alfred Hitchcock Allen Began Benny Burns Early Favorite First Hitchcock Itself Jack Many Modeled Presents Programs Radio Show Television Were Wife

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The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.

~David Gerrold

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When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.

~David Gerrold

Topics: Adapt Along Around Books Came Capabilities Did Die Each Each Time Finally First Formats Had Happened Internet Just Medium Moving Pictures Text Then Those Time Video

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 24th, 1944

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