THE YEAR OF, THE YEAR OF ----------------------- (a poem) This is the year of the RSS reader, said Hacker News. This is the year of the Linux desktop. This i

THE YEAR OF, THE YEAR OF ----------------------- (a poem) This is the year of the RSS reader, said Hacker News. This is the year of the Linux desktop. This is the year of IPv6. This is the year of ____ battery technology that is ____ times better than Li-ion for ____ application, but is impractical because it _______ This is the year of the portable fission reactor. This is the year of the tokamak; this is the year of the stellarator; this is the year of quantum supremacy. This is the year of not quite-yet. This is the year that we finally expose those weird woke people. This is the year that we finally expose those flagrant futurist-fascists. This is the year that there was another shooting, and then another, but we were fascinated by the ghost guns, not the torn flesh. This is the year we invented "freedom of reach", because it rhymed, and there is no tax on superfluous fine distinctions. Nor, it would seem, on rich mens' folly. This is the year, this is the year, this is the year. This is the gyre, this is the gyre, this is the gyre. We love the merry-go-round; for when it goes fast enough, it really feels like you're getting somewhere.