The Same Old Future
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the_gneechParaphrased conversation from this morning, posted here mainly 'cause I thought it was interesting.
Context: Riding to work, listening to Yaz on the Sirius radio.
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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
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
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Date: 2008-01-02 04:50 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2008-01-02 05:03 pm (UTC)-TG