On 4/3/2022 7:51 PM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <t2d5ig$1hga$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
> <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-04-03 20:25:53 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
>>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:38:06 -0400, A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not that they're paying attention, but Star Trek history is quite
>>>> different from ours. For instance, we didn't have World War III -- at
>>>> least, not yet. Of course, Voyager completely ignored WW3 when the
>>>> ship went back in time to meet Sarah Silverman.
>>>
>>> Star Trek has retconned history a couple of times - notably from TOS
>>> (e.g. the first one featuring Shatner + Nimoy) when WW3 happened in
>>> the 1990s with Khan Noonien Singh arising as a leader from the ashes.
>>
>> Unfortuantely that's the usual consequence of setting shows in the near
>> future. We're still waiting for our flying cars, hoverboards, and
>> self-tieing shows from "Back to the Future", Moon base from "Space
>> 1999", etc.
>
>
> Those things didn't happen, but OTOH nobody foresaw that we'd all have
> powerful computers in our homes. Predictions of the future tended to
> be dismal (someone's already mentioned Soylent Green), but we're not
> there. We don't have space travel, moon bases or factories in orbit,
> but we do have a lot of TV channels.
>
And the ability to communicate with people all over the world.

On 4/3/2022 8:19 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
>> On 4/3/2022 7:51 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2022-04-03 20:25:53 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
>>>>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:38:06 -0400, A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>> Not that they're paying attention, but Star Trek history is quite
>>>>>> different from ours. For instance, we didn't have World War III -- at
>>>>>> least, not yet. Of course, Voyager completely ignored WW3 when the
>>>>>> ship went back in time to meet Sarah Silverman.
>
>>>>> Star Trek has retconned history a couple of times - notably from TOS
>>>>> (e.g. the first one featuring Shatner + Nimoy) when WW3 happened in
>>>>> the 1990s with Khan Noonien Singh arising as a leader from the ashes.
>
>>>> Unfortuantely that's the usual consequence of setting shows in the near
>>>> future. We're still waiting for our flying cars, hoverboards, and
>>>> self-tieing shows from "Back to the Future", Moon base from "Space
>>>> 1999", etc.
>
>>> Those things didn't happen, but OTOH nobody foresaw that we'd all have
>>> powerful computers in our homes. Predictions of the future tended to
>>> be dismal (someone's already mentioned Soylent Green), but we're not
>>> there. We don't have space travel, moon bases or factories in orbit,
>>> but we do have a lot of TV channels.
>
>> And the ability to communicate with people all over the world.
>
> Yeah. Twitter and Facebook are media of world-wide communication and not
> instantaneous methods of spreading lies and hatred of minorities in
> third-world countries and the means of preserving dictatorships.
>
> Instant communication just brings the world closer together.
>
Parts of it.....

On 4/3/2022 9:25 PM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 4/3/2022 8:19 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
>>> On 4/3/2022 7:51 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-04-03 20:25:53 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
>>>>>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:38:06 -0400, A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> Not that they're paying attention, but Star Trek history is quite
>>>>>>> different from ours.  For instance, we didn't have World War III
>>>>>>> -- at
>>>>>>> least, not yet.  Of course, Voyager completely ignored WW3 when the
>>>>>>> ship went back in time to meet Sarah Silverman.
>>
>>>>>> Star Trek has retconned history a couple of times - notably from TOS
>>>>>> (e.g. the first one featuring Shatner + Nimoy) when WW3 happened in
>>>>>> the 1990s with Khan Noonien Singh arising as a leader from the ashes.
>>
>>>>> Unfortuantely that's the usual consequence of setting shows in the
>>>>> near
>>>>> future. We're still waiting for our flying cars, hoverboards, and
>>>>> self-tieing shows from "Back to the Future", Moon base from "Space
>>>>> 1999", etc.
>>>> Those things didn't happen, but OTOH nobody foresaw that we'd all have
>>>> powerful computers in our homes.  Predictions of the future tended to
>>>> be dismal (someone's already mentioned Soylent Green), but we're not
>>>> there.  We don't have space travel, moon bases or factories in orbit,
>>>> but we do have a lot of TV channels.
>>
>>> And the ability to communicate with people all over the world.
>>
>> Yeah. Twitter and Facebook are media of world-wide communication and not
>> instantaneous methods of spreading lies and hatred of minorities in
>> third-world countries and the means of preserving dictatorships.
>>
>> Instant communication just brings the world closer together.
>>
> Parts of it.....

Usually the parts one does not wish to communicate with.

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