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spider robinson had a short story, "the time traveller", based on the premise that emerging from years of that sort of isolation (i think it was ten years in th
by zem 3y ago
spider robinson had a short story, "the time traveller", based on the premise that emerging from years of that sort of isolation (i think it was ten years in the case of his protagonist) was tantamount to travelling forward in time.
- qingcharles 3y agoI work with prisoners who get released. I just worked with a guy who got out after 40 years. It was interesting setting him up with a phone, debit card, bank account etc. He'd never had a bank account or ever paid taxes (the look on the woman's face at the Social Security office when she tried to pull up his tax returns...!). I had to show him how to use a debit card. It was basically like time travel for him. I did 10 years locked up, but the only thing that changed was that the Web had become totally "enshittified."