2009.

[randomness]

Screw the flying cars, what happened to our space colonies? They said by now there would be space colonies.

Comments

[dpolicar]

Nobody said they'd be our space colonies.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

In fact, they did say they'd be our space colonies! There were even pictures!

Perhaps we're talking about different "they"s. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Hah! Good quote.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

For some reason this makes me think of another quote:

"Until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes, you can't imagine the smell."

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

The problem with space colonies is that they require air cars in order to exist.

The problem with air cars is that they require space colonies in order to exist.

Confound those dratted inter-related dependencies!

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Betcha Jupiter doesn't turn into a star sometime next year, either.

You know, I hate it when that doesn't happen.

[evilmagnus]

We'd need the flying cars to get to them.

[blipvert.livejournal.com]

They also promised us murderous, psychotic computers. We've still stuck with nothing worse than memory leaks, annoying interfaces and blandly bad programming.

They're killing us softly.

[blipvert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well we haven't quite finished raping the planet we're on yet. It'll come.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

we've replaced their space colonies with Folger's crystals...let's see if they notice...

(brought to you by the Bad Advertising Memes, ca. 1985)

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

we need to refactor our dependencies! ;)

[jimmystagger.livejournal.com]

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.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, iRobot needs to get moving on that.

[ishaa.livejournal.com]

I loled.