“Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.”–Alan Kay
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Gee, the world hasn’t changed all that much in my lifetime, has it? It’s not like people were still communicating with smoke signals in my infancy. Let’s see–what didn’t exist when I was born? Color TV. Stereophonic sound. Jet airliners. Solid state circuitry. NASA. Computers smaller than a log cabin. Ouch! Mark! Don’t remind yourself how old you are. See folks, technology has me talking to myself. I know… I know… that’s what blogging amounts to in the first place. Now, back to the salt mines…
The Millennium Conjectures™ 
Guess it depends at what level you look at it. We still walk upright, our main mode of transport is still earth-bound, etc…
Yes…back in the 60’s, a man as visionary as Arthur C. Clarke thought our future at the turn of the 21st century would be in outer space. It turned out to be cyberspace.
I recently read that the notion “cyber” (as in cybernetics) is actually very retro and antedates all the cyber something hype!
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Posts like this let me understand why I am intrigued by steampunk: Science fiction of a past age.
I love Jules Vernes view of the future from the second half of the 19th century. He was truly the father of today’s SF.
I like to think my future is somewhere in the outer realms of this reality
That’s where my total existence is… 😀
Even as someone from a different generation, I’m feeling the same pain. So much I don’t understand or even want to understand. Which is where the talking to yourself and living outside of reality parts comes in handy 🙂
Fiction – non-reality, will be reality in inversely exponential periods. Is inversely exponential a proper description of going faster, quicker, careening even?
Wow. Now you even have my head spinning. 😉
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