From: lefou2363984@yahoo.com   
      
   cykros writes:   
      
   > Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk   
   > Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:52:27 -0400 (1 day, 20 hours, 38 minutes ago)   
   > Organization: A noiseless patient Spider   
   >   
   > I find it amusing that you point to it being the future while posting to   
   > Usenet via a BBS system :-) (not making fun...I use BBS's, and obviously   
   > still use Usenet...the irony is just too much not to mention).   
   > ...   
   > cykros   
      
   Definitely good irony. Maybe this *is* the future...   
      
   > On 10/06/2012 02:22 PM, Diode wrote:   
   >> Ok, I don't know if we are presently living in the CP future, but god   
   >> damn are we getting close. I mean look at wear we are. Everyone is   
   >> walking around with   
   >> networked computers. I can buy, off the shelf for less that $1000, a video   
   >> display visor and a rig that allows me to control a pc with my brain wave   
   >> patterns. There are international hacker groups running rampant in the grid   
   >> doing both good and evil. There are self driving cars, robots for home,   
   >> industry and war. We have soldiers returning from was with a wide variety   
   >> of state of the art robotic prosthetics.   
   >>   
   >> I'm just saying, it smells a lot like the future in here.   
      
   I thought cyberpunk was figuratively about 20 minutes into the future.   
      
   Jorgen LeFou   
      
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