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Complex Numbers #560221 added January 10, 2008 at 7:56pm
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The Future, It Ain't What It Used To Be...
And sometimes, that's not a bad thing.
http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/01/will-war-drive-civilization-underground.html
The December 13, 1942 Montana Standard (Butte, MT) ran an interesting piece by Gardner Dane about the world of 1975, devastated by war, forcing people to move underground in order to survive.
People thing it's the job of the science fiction writer (or, in this case, prognosticator) to predict the future. Not so.
Their job is to prevent the future.
I still want my flying car, though, dammit! |
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