Oh man - that series was a chunk of my childhood. Had totally forgotten about it.
chatGPT (kind of) predicted in the 1958 book 'Danny Dunn and the homework machine'
wow, same. I turned to it after exhausting the library's collection of Tom Swift books, which were charmingly dated *at the time* and are just relics at this point.
Seriously. In college in the 1990s, I discovered a weird half-floor of the campus library that had the Tom Swift Sr. books, which were 1910s-1920s and those were even more relics than my dad's old Tom Swift Jr. books. (I was hunting down "The Mouse That Roared," which was shelved as a kids book.)
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