Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
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@cstross "Today is worse than yesterday, but at least it’s better than tomorrow." - Russian proverb
@michaelgemar @cstross very Russian!
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@cstross A future where the courts are all bought up by private equity.
@WenhamToo @cstross
Enter "84K" by Claire North. -
Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross
H.G. Wells: „It [his 1923 novel Men like Gods] did not horrify or frighten, was not much of a success, and by that time, I had tired of talking in playful parables to a world engaged in destroying itself." -
Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross a world where everyone is a Bond villain?
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross By induction, the past was better…
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross In the bleak even more capitalist future, Soylent Green is the good stuff.
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@cstross The Universe: "You ain't seen nuttin' yet, boy!"
I KNOW, I KNOW: someone with more money than sense uses CRISPR to rapidly adapt Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi to a new environment—the *human* rectum! And to be resistant to all known vermifuges. A plentiful habitat for a very persistent pest ...
They then market this as a sales pitch for colonic irrigation with bleach.
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@cstross In the bleak even more capitalist future, Soylent Green is the good stuff.
@graydon A corollary nobody seems to have noted is that if Soylent Green was real, it'd be an amazingly effective tool for amplifying an nvCJD pandemic.
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I KNOW, I KNOW: someone with more money than sense uses CRISPR to rapidly adapt Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi to a new environment—the *human* rectum! And to be resistant to all known vermifuges. A plentiful habitat for a very persistent pest ...
They then market this as a sales pitch for colonic irrigation with bleach.
@cstross Universe: "I see you're a glass-half-full kind of guy ..."
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross At least the past was worse.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross Warhammer 40k already exists though, and there's a lot of chuds who think they'd be the elite soldiers, same as they think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires right now.
What we need more of is a hopeful vision of the future, one where wasting dwindling resources isn't a status symbol.
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@cstross Fucking Hell, Charlie, as Friday night thoughts go, this can go pretty awesome or pretty fucked. Or both.
@Illuminatus @cstross I need to reread LRH's Battlefield Earth. I remember reading that in college long long ago and it was a wild romp.
#FridayNightThought #AwesomeOrFucked(I haven't seen the movie that came years later, don't intend to)
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@cstross a world where everyone is a Bond villain?
@joshsusser @cstross over a decade ago when staying in the Rioplatense area, a friend told me of the Argentinian mindset: it's all about scams, everyone's running scams constantly. When they see someone with a fancy house and car, it's not “oh they must be successful, I wonder what they do" it's “I wonder who they scammed that from"
now, I'm sure that was a bit overblown, but I've been reminded of that a lot lately
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@Illuminatus @cstross I need to reread LRH's Battlefield Earth. I remember reading that in college long long ago and it was a wild romp.
#FridayNightThought #AwesomeOrFucked(I haven't seen the movie that came years later, don't intend to)
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross now come on, this is an insult to Bond villains.
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@cstross a world where everyone is a Bond villain?
@joshsusser @cstross yes, the democratization of supervillainhood, thanks to evilgpt
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross
quick nod to the film Wristcutters here -
@graydon A corollary nobody seems to have noted is that if Soylent Green was real, it'd be an amazingly effective tool for amplifying an nvCJD pandemic.
@cstross @graydon
Nah, unknown to the protagonist they were only using the meat to make SG; the brains & nervous tissue was being destructively scanned & virtually replicated to upload people-models into slave-robots.Why else do you think the ruling classes were allowing the population to continue to increase rather than just wiping out millions of plebs to create farmland?
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross The Bond Villains have taken over both the universe and your inner-verse? That would be worse.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross all I know is the story will probably suck
