Comments on: Friday fluff: The Future Soon

By: karey

karey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:02:26 +0000

The future? I don’t know if it’s in a book anywhere, but I think the future holds this possibility: archaeoligists digging up mummies with two silicone bags lying on their ribs and saying, “What are these things for?”

Someone mentioned Orson Scott Card. I took a workshop from him this summer. He’s hilarious and–I don’t need to tell you–incredibly brilliant. He talks like an encyclopedia.

I wrote some of his gem-like wonders down and put them here, if anyone is interested: http://golibro.com

By: apricotmuffins

apricotmuffins — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:03:52 +0000

oh maaaaan, i am a sucker for a good apocalyptic movie/book/concept. I love the stuff!

I too think that the handmaid’s tale is scarily close to what could happen, and having just watched Children of Men last night im sure the treatment of illegal immigrants in the film is not far off in the future either. (and the ‘avoiding fertility tests is a crime’ billboards. and the Quietus, government hand-out suicide kits. (you decide when) it was creepy as hell)

Society is set to crumble, sometime soon. It happened to all the great nations in history, something corrupted from the inside, and no matter how great and how dominant they were, things went sideways. The whole health as a moral obligation thing feels like the beginning of something nasty.

By: Charli

Charli — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:29:09 +0000

My pleasure, WRT2, I love to give out hugs!

By: wellroundedtype2

wellroundedtype2 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:32:36 +0000

Thanks for the hug, Charli.
I came across as way more depressed than I meant to.
There is also the Institute for Alternative Futures to look to…

By: Sniper

Sniper — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:14:22 +0000

Figting to the death in Bartertown, and tribes of feral kids in the woods with their cargo cult waiting for Captain Walker to take them to the Tomorramorraland.

Hmph. Sounds suspiciously like my place of work. It’s a middle school – such behavior is normal.

By: Emerald

Emerald — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:45:28 +0000

A Mad Max III scenario, probably. Figting to the death in Bartertown, and tribes of feral kids in the woods with their cargo cult waiting for Captain Walker to take them to the Tomorramorraland.

I can cope with this as long as I get to be Auntie Entity. I want Tina Turner’s costume. ;)

By: Pippa

Pippa — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:29:05 +0000

Well it’s either Handmaid’s Tale or Children of Men, one way or the other I reckon all the stuff women are doing/putting into their bodies to be attractive to men is going to backfire horribly at some point. Nature loves irony.

I’m suprised noone’s mentioned Soylent Green yet. I wonder what Al Gore thinks of that level of recycling???

By: Dorianne

Dorianne — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:36:45 +0000

I’m so totally down with the Handmaid’s Tale vision of the U.S.’s future….

By: spacedcowgirl

spacedcowgirl — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:18:38 +0000

I was the first person to sneer at the “pert breasts” comment in the original article, but I have to say I could stand a pair of permanently pert breasts. No more $30 bras poking me in the side and squishing my fat and such until the wire comes out and I have to shell out another $30. I know I could theoretically go braless, but my boobs have resembled tube socks with tennis balls in the toes since like 4th grade, so not wearing a bra is not so much liberating as sweaty and uncomfortable. If they would just defy gravity forever I would be much more comfy and have lots more money. So in the future I think we should either have no boobs or comfortable, convenient boobs of some kind. If that means “pert” (what irritating wording) then so be it.

I don’t know about you, but I’ll never have the earning power to buy one of these right at launch. I’ll have to wait until the price drops enough, which will be with like version 5.0 — plenty of time for them to work out the kinks.

Aha! Excellent! My friend’s college roommate will be like the first person in the world to line up for one of these, so he can deal with the start-up issues.

And there would be hackers who would go around transparenting womens clothing, so that would end up being totally useless.
I think this is going to require more thought.

Hahahahahahahahaha!!

By: Charli

Charli — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:08:23 +0000

Ahhh, WRT2, sounds like you need a hug

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There you go!