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Sci-fi books are full of reverse anachronisms like that. Worlds with space travel, but no computers.

Asimov has some good stories where people no longer know how to read and write and multiply because everything is done on computers and all interactions with computers and are done by voice.



"The Feeling of Power" IIRC.




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