”I wrote the DUNE series, because I had this idea that charismatic leaders should come with a warning label on the forehead: MAY BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH.”
-Frank Herbert, 1985
Rich tech people; Guaranteed to miss the point of critical science-fiction since forever.
Elon was once explaining to eager fanboys how The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was really about the conviction one needs to find out the answer to the final question about life, the universe, and everything…
From Strata:
'People had always dreamed of a unified world. We thought it would be a richer one. It wasn't. It meant that the Eskimo got educated and learned cost accountancy, but it didn't mean that the German learned to hunt whales with a spear. It meant everyone learned how to press buttons, and no one remembered how to dive for pearls.' (pub. 1981!)
Oh I totally get that man.... Though I my case I'm too lazy to do calculations in my head... 🤣
"For a moment or two the old man didn’t reply. He was staring at the instruments with the air of one who is trying to convert Fahrenheit to centigrade in his head whilst his house is burning down."
"The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaint Department is always bustling with complaints. On top of the Complaints Department are the words of their slogan, "Share and Enjoy", in illuminated letters. [...]"
"The Sirius Cybernerics Corporation Complaints department has recently been rebranded as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Customer Quality Prevention Division."
Taking a brief break from our #DoctorWho marathon for the next few weeks.
Partly because after Logopolis aired there was a break of about a year before the next story, Castrovalva, but mostly because during that break the BBC aired some of my favourite science fiction serials of all time.
New instance, new #introduction (same as the old introduction).
Cishet half-white male, recently turned 50. Software dev, main project is web/database for radio and TV stations (think Nielsen ratings but for ad dollars).
Long time MUSH player, inherited a large #WorldOfDarkness instance in 2013 which continues to this day. GM #Paranoia at local game conventions. Play in a couple of parlor #larp games. Play lots of #StardewValley (wrote a couple small mods for it, one of which is my icon here).
Oof. Laundry is an unrelenting facet of adulting, eh?
Am pondering some mumu/poncho also used as blanket/towel a la #hitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy as a "one item does all" and just wash that when it gets funky.
If Douglas Adams had been a woman he'd have realised he'd written complete nonsense about ballpoints ...
In fact as we all know, it's scrunchies and single earrings that mysteriously slip away to their home planets via wormholes in the space-time continuum 💫