What's a funny/intriguing anachronism you read in sci-fi?
In The Man in Asbestos, a #ShortStory by Stephen Leacock, everyone wears asbestos suits:
"They last hundreds of years. We have one suit each, and there are billions piled up, if anybody wants a new one."
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In The Man in Asbestos, a #ShortStory by Stephen Leacock, everyone wears asbestos suits:
"They last hundreds of years. We have one suit each, and there are billions piled up, if anybody wants a new one."
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The 1939 World Fair had an asbestos man with asbestos touted as a "magic mineral": https://www.flickr.com/photos/asbestos_pix/28096874372
If Leacock knew, it makes the story's main message even better.
Smoking, asbestos, fossil fuels/climate change, lead, plastics, ultra-processed food...
The story, if anyone would like to read it: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602131h.html