The Same Old Future

[the_gneech]

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.

lythandra: Wow. Back in the '80s, this would have seemed impossible. Satellite radio, the internet...

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

lythandra: I just mean, it would have seemed too "futuristic".

the_gneech: It is the future! It's 2008 already! We just missed out on the flying cars.

lythandra: (laughs)

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

-The Gneech

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

As I stated in 2001, "GURPS lied to me!"

Tech Level 8 — Spacefaring :(2001 to 2050?)
Slower-than-light space travel, fusion power, bionic implants, ballistic airliners, cybertanks, orbital lasers, BPC combat armor and battlesuits, gauss needlers, fission/electric power, orbital-collected solar power, cloning, plastiskin [Basic Set]

So yeah, where are my cyborg implants and flying cars and orbital death laser cannons?!

--Salen

[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

They're hiding. We gave them AI's and now their scared. -Frisk

[hantamouse.livejournal.com]

Thats classified.