A Bright and Shiny Future
Date: July 14th, 2000 @ 00:00
I grew up on science with a side helping of science-fiction. Whatever I read, one thing was made very clear: come 2000, things were gonna change.
As of now, we’ve got five-and-a-half months left to accomplish some pretty heady tasks. We were assured we’d have rocket powered cars, the DOW would be up to a heady 3,000, there’d be a cure for cancer, the common cold would be eliminated, many of us would be living in orbital space colonies, poverty and war would be eliminated, powerful calculating computers would be smaller than a refrigerator, and that we’d have robots to do all our dirty work, thereby bringing us down to a 20 hour work week.
I’d like to address the science, academia, and political communities:
Quite frankly, I’m a little disappointed in you. Your progress has been rather underwhelming, and you’d best pick up the slack or else I’m going to be very sad.
Now get to work.
Categories: ltm/snd archives