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the_gneech ([personal profile] the_gneech) wrote2008-01-02 09:30 am
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The Same Old Future

Paraphrased conversation from this morning, posted here mainly 'cause I thought it was interesting.

Context: Riding to work, listening to Yaz on the Sirius radio.

[livejournal.com profile] lythandra: Wow. Back in the '80s, this would have seemed impossible. Satellite radio, the internet...

[livejournal.com profile] the_gneech: Back in the '80s, it was impossible, or we would have had it. The technology was still being developed.

[livejournal.com profile] lythandra: I just mean, it would have seemed too "futuristic".

[livejournal.com profile] the_gneech: It is the future! It's 2008 already! We just missed out on the flying cars.

[livejournal.com profile] lythandra: (laughs)

[livejournal.com profile] the_gneech: We're supposed to have had a colony on Mars and at least two nuclear holocausts by now.

-The Gneech

[identity profile] yippee.livejournal.com 2008-01-02 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Riddle me this, mister Gneech...

If you saw the title card come up during Blade Runner, did you mentally read it out as "Los Angeles, twenty-nineteen"? At what point will people stop saying "two-thousand-something" and refer to the years by "twenty-something"?
twenty-ten?
twenty-thirteen?
twenty-twenty?
twenty-one-hundred?

[identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com 2008-01-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I generally use "two-thousand-_____" for 2000-2009, then "twenty-_______" for 2010+, myself.

-TG