Major props to oh6 for quoting Spinrad! "Deus X" is one of my favorite books.
Anyway, seriously I say this all the time. I have this issue of National Geographic from probably 1987 or 1988 that looks into, again if I can recall correctly, the world of 2001 and there are space colonies as well as cars that drive themselves and are powered by basically everything except gas. Ah, memories.
They also promised us murderous, psychotic computers. We've still stuck with nothing worse than memory leaks, annoying interfaces and blandly bad programming.
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Date: 2009-01-04 10:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-05 07:35 am (UTC)Anyway, seriously I say this all the time. I have this issue of National Geographic from probably 1987 or 1988 that looks into, again if I can recall correctly, the world of 2001 and there are space colonies as well as cars that drive themselves and are powered by basically everything except gas. Ah, memories.
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Date: 2009-01-04 11:04 pm (UTC)"Until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes, you can't imagine the smell."
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Date: 2009-01-07 07:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-04 10:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-04 10:54 pm (UTC)Perhaps we're talking about different "they"s. :)
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Date: 2009-01-04 11:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-04 11:07 pm (UTC)You know, I hate it when that doesn't happen.
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Date: 2009-01-04 11:47 pm (UTC)They're killing us softly.
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Date: 2009-01-04 11:05 pm (UTC)The problem with air cars is that they require space colonies in order to exist.
Confound those dratted inter-related dependencies!
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Date: 2009-01-05 04:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-05 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-04 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-05 04:27 am (UTC)(brought to you by the Bad Advertising Memes, ca. 1985)