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Are you kidding? America in _Sheep_ is decaying so badly that at the very end of the book a guy in Ireland sees a freaking dust cloud on the Western horizon be
by Vivtek 14y ago
Are you kidding? America in _Sheep_ is decaying so badly that at the very end of the book a guy in Ireland sees a freaking dust cloud on the Western horizon because that's all that's left of the United States.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoNo, I felt that they path of America in _Sheep_ is what they folks protesting for #occupy see, and I see breakdowns of basic services like water Sanitation in California cities where a combination of budget cuts and corrupt operators combine to put the public in danger. But I totally concede the point that looking at past predictions is at least as interpretive as the predictions looking forward are. I saw some things in Brunner that really resonated with the future, I saw few things in the LA Times piece, but those were my interpretations of them. It makes me think about the "thing" that will be obvious in 25 years that isn't even on our radar now. Candidates might be unlimited fusion power, or space travel, or infinite bandwidth, or global transportation, or a completely different climate or lunar colonies. Clearly you can't know what you can't know.