Does this detract from sci-fi novels, for you?

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When the future technology is nothing new. I mean, flying cars and holograms, for example and other "future" technology that you can find in every other sci-fi book.

I recently read a sci-fi that offered nothing new in technology. It didn't distract from the story for me, but it's something I still remember weeks after reading the book.


BQ: What's the most awesome - and unique/original - technology you've read about in a book (that you didn't write)?

BQ: For writers who are writing sci-fi or something that involves future/advanced technology - do you strive to invent something that's not used in every other sci-fi book?
 
Not particularly, as long as everything else in the novel is good. I don't mind if things are predictable technology-wise. I know when researching for my futuristic novel, it's only partially my own inventions - most of it is technology projections.

BQ: Not sure if it is original, because it has already been a theory for a while, but Grey Goo.

BQ: I want to invent something innovative and awesome, but no, I don't strive for it. At first, I wanted it to take place in the past, but then I realized the stuff required for the story required a whole lot of advanced/uninvented technology. It was a pure necessity thing. My focus is on the plot and my characters, and if I come up with something great in the process, more power to me.
 
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