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Current Science Fiction = Future Science Fact?
It is a remarkable but verifiable fact that mankind is wholly incapable of predicting its future - through its priests, its madmen, its laity, or its scientists. No stated vision of the future has ever come true. Whether it is an HP calculator killing the slide rule, CDs killing licorice pizzas, PCR and recombinant DNA, the Soviet implosion, or the Net and e-mail remaking the whole of First World civilization... nobody saw it coming. Nobody.
Science fiction exists to expose defective futures, thereby rendering them impossible. Imagine everything you can. The future lies huddled in the untouched residue, precisely like the very last entity remaining after Pandora opened the damned box. NASA hasn't got a chance.
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Uncle Al
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