Rule of thumb for predicting: much of what you can imagine won't happen. Much of what matters will be things you can't imagine. 1/
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2017 is basically 1987 plus Internet and smartphones. Who saw that coming? Who understood that this meant porn taking over the world? 2/
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Life extension was a hot topic in 1977. So far there are no working life extension technologies as such. None. 3/
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A lot of human progress since say 1955--staggering technological and cultural complexity--is in sound synthesis and transmission. 4/
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That's cool, but in a poll about flying cars, space colonies, giant robots, who votes for tiny orchestras you can put in your pocket? 5/
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Because that's the future we actually got. That's what western culture, to a substantial extent, is now. Sounds (and pictures). 6/
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I am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together etc
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