I have a reason to make a pseudo-representative list of older SF, so... What's your favourite older science-fiction story?

Two requirements:

• It must be at least 20 years old; and
  
• It must be set in the future, as of when it was written. (Macross' starting date of 1999 counts as "the future" since the show is from the mid-1980s, for example.)
  

I know one can get a pretty small computer nowadays, but how small?

The smallest I know of is the http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs]Raspberry Pi, at 85.60mm × 56mm × 21mm. (Yes, I know it's an educational "toy" machine. It's still a working computer.) However, that's too big for the empty Godiva chocolate boxes I have, with interior dimensions of 80mm × 38mm × 18mm ... Does anyone know of a smaller computer than the Pi, or am I going to have to find a different use for these metal boxes that no longer hold chocolate?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/world/eur ... ?hpt=hp_c4]You'd be wrong.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Actor Allan Arbus -- Major Sidney Freedman from M*A*S*H -- http://us.cnn.com/2013/04/23/showbiz/al ... f=obinsite
 
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Now, I believe I'm your typical average human with a standard view of things that just don't belong to this world and should be removed from it. That typically means things that would like to do the same back to me - like snakes, spiders, certain big cats; and the others: aliens (of the Grey, E.T. & Xenomorph varieties), zombies, certain cybernetic organisms, dinosaurs.

But lately, for me another thing's been popping up on that list: Fundamentalist religious extremists. Now for me it's something that's been drifting off & on that list for the last decade, and it's not just pegged at one group, it's all of them! I suppose this recent bout has come about after watching a recent news piece on how Pakistan's going to shit, featuring a Hitler-lite* stirring up a crowd, leaving me wondering why isn't anyone doing anything to shut that...ugh person up. From there for me it got worse it wasn't just one Hitler-lite, it's a whole group of them whose memetic message is reaching many levels and the government officials that question their view or oppose them are getting Trojan horsed.

And it's a message that's spreading.

*I'm using the 'charismatic vitriol-spewing speechmaker' meaning of the word

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/showbiz/o ... =obnetwork]CNN obit here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php ... 192.0.html

All the music.Brazil has decided you're cute.

I just started a new game... what do you think the names of my prinnies came up as?

Geronimo, Buster and Nitro. I laughed so hard... from now on, I will always make sure to have prinnies with these names. Since I usually keep a squad of six, the other three will be Toodles, Blammo, and Kaboom! It's even better than (re)naming them after snack food like I usually do!

(For those unfamiliar with Disgaea, it's a strategy RPG like Final Fantasy Tactics where the main character is Laharl, a young demon prince who wakes up from a nap to discover his father the Overlord died two years ago while he was sleeping. Your goal is to reconquer the underworld (startlingly similar to every other fantasy RPG world ever) and become the new Overlord, and Prinnies are damned souls who are required to wear peg-legged penguin costumes and be menial servants/general minions to atone for their sins in life. One of the features of the game is that you can pick up and throw objects you want moved, characters you want to get around the map faster, or monsters you want to change the position of - but prinnies explode and damage the square they hit as well as the two surrounding rings for half their max HP if you throw them, My prinnie squad is basically anti-boss ammunition. Now the joke's been explained so it's not funny anymore, but at least you get it without needing to have played the game.)
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Right,

To cut a long story short, I'm planning a trip to Washington DC. Will be 29th of October to 2nd of November. (Or possible 8th to 13th), which gives about 3 full days in the city to actually do stuff.

Only I'm not quite sure what.

Obviously the Air and Space Museum is on the list (This was the whole point and origin of the trip) - and probably the Smithsonian too. But that still leaves 1-2 days to fill, and I'm not quite sure what to fill them with. We don't have enough time to do 'everything', and there might be some unique things going on worth catching.

Has anyone ever been?

Can anyone offer any suggestions for unique things to do or see? Or interesting places to eat?

In return, I promise to post trip pictures from the museum when I get back.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

Yes, I am near Boston, but not THAT near. All I know that wouldn't be on the various media outlets is that my aunt (who lives in the city) wasn't there to see the marathon, and my uncle (a not-that-job-title park ranger) isn't part of the dragnet, and is irritated at not being able to go to work because he had things to do.

- dNN, sick of the talking heads yapping about it already
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows