"...we could go back in time. We have not seen any tourists from the future."
Hmm...I remember reading in a Ray Bradubry short story once that seeing someone from the future would cause a paradox, which the universe will not allow, so is this theory exactly reliable? Also, I think I saw this interview, with exact quotes, on Larry King Live once. Strange...
I may be beginning to sound a little like Bruce here, but I think that in an age where we *are* so much more advanced than we were, the "minor" problems are quite significant.
"The problems we face today are not those somber, long-term problems. On the contrary, we very clearly exist in a highly fortunate time with very minor problems." I find it very hard to accept this statement, clearly inserted to add a dash of substance to an otherwise vapid "manifesto". The current technological adequacy (sp?) of the world does not render us invincible to real, worldly problems. Starvation around the world? War? Hate crimes? Violence in schools? Maybe Bruce doesn't have to face any problems, other then the minor ones, but all it takes it to turn on the local news to see a handfull of problems, that I doubt will be resolved very quickly.
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Yet another scientific advance thought of 15 years earlier by...you guessed it...William Gibson.
Is this not essentially what Dixie Flatline was?
"...we could go back in time. We have not seen any tourists from the future."
Hmm...I remember reading in a Ray Bradubry short story once that seeing someone from the future would cause a paradox, which the universe will not allow, so is this theory exactly reliable?
Also, I think I saw this interview, with exact quotes, on Larry King Live once. Strange...
...Linus poses for a centerfold.
Suffering, however, is relative.
I may be beginning to sound a little like Bruce here, but I think that in an age where we *are* so much more advanced than we were, the "minor" problems are quite significant.
"The problems we face today are not those somber, long-term problems. On the contrary, we very clearly exist in a highly fortunate time with very minor problems."
I find it very hard to accept this statement, clearly inserted to add a dash of substance to an otherwise vapid "manifesto". The current technological adequacy (sp?) of the world does not render us invincible to real, worldly problems. Starvation around the world? War? Hate crimes? Violence in schools? Maybe Bruce doesn't have to face any problems, other then the minor ones, but all it takes it to turn on the local news to see a handfull of problems, that I doubt will be resolved very quickly.