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I remember my Grandfather telling me with utter seriousness and sincerity that by the year 2000 everyone would have a personal hovercraft and that we’d take holidays on the moon.
This was in 1996.
Just our luck that Cosmic Horror ended up being the most accurate prediction.
Its 2027 and most candidates need to find “underaged women” to be able to qualify for the office. Everyone will vote and their vote will count! Except for women, minorities, and people who don’t earn a minimum of 5 million per year.
Very much agree. I love old Sci-Fi for this reason. The authors dreamt big.
I thought space travel was just around the corner until I was like 22 :(
Musk gave me hope when he sent a car to mars and then he spent the next decade either fucking democracy or fucking children.
He just sent that car to orbit. Its not really a great achievment we have been sneding heavier things than that for some time. Just a publicity stunt and rocket test in one.
Musk wanted to fuck children but wasn’t cool enough with the pedo crowd. Which is gross and extremely pathetic.
I too have high hopes I’ll see a human in orbit or on mars before I die. But all that big money is instead being spent on mega yachts and lobbying to fuck us over. So I think it’s more likely we’ll be living in a Mad Max movie instead of a cool space sci-fi one.
I thought there were multiple instances of him “partying”. There’s mostly just that one email exchange where they didn’t want him back.
And also spending a some time making shit up about his past and “upbringing”
I will always be grateful to my second year middle school geography teacher for hinting towards Musk’s space grift. They were so underated, but everything they said was real.
Well, in the mid-20th century, it was easy to think like that. The New York Times predicted that mankind would build a working flying machine within the next million years. The Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk two weeks later. Less than seventy years after that, an average American citizen could fly to Europe on a jumbo jet and man had walked on the moon. By the time I was born, the space shuttle was regularly flying, we had CD players and satellite television. the 20th century was NUTS.
Look what the fucking boomers took from us…
I have an old 70s Star Wars book about space. They’re talking moon cities by the year 1990
At least we don’t reside in any of Phillip K Dicks futures
I feel like this one is close https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_My_Tears,_the_Policeman_Said
I feel like we are heading straight for this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_My_Tears,_the_Policeman_Said
There was a man who really told us who he was. I’d be reading along in my dad’s Analog Magazine, not really noticing authors, and suddenly find myself chest-deep in evil. What a dick.
