On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:51:34 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
 declaimed the following:

> Just found a copy and reread it, and one thing Asimov didn't even
>remotely forsee when he wrote that in the late 1950s was the low cost and
>high speed with which solid state electronics could be churned out.
>

 Well... At that point in time, the consumer exposure to "solid state
electronics" was the transistorized AM radio -- a radio powered by dry cell
batteries and small enough to carry around! {And 20-25 years later, they've
grown into these big bricks you have to lug around on your shoulder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boombox#/media/File:Sanyo_M9998LU_Boombox.png
}



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