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   Dimensional Traveler to Your Name   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   18 Jan 14 23:26:50   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/18/2014 5:08 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Robert Bannister   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 18/01/2014 1:54 pm, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article , Robert Bannister   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> On 17/01/2014 11:37 am, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >>>>> Robert Bannister  wrote   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I suppose we would all have to have locks and bars or maybe even   
   >>>>>> shutters on our windows to keep flying burglars out.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Nar, just a decent RFID system that only lets yours   
   >>>>> in and visitors you choose to enable access to.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How will that stop burglars from breaking my windows?   
   >>>   
   >>> Windows?? Why would you want windows? You're safely tucked in your   
   >>> little house, telecommunting, purchases delivered by drones or 3D   
   >>> printed ... the outside world doesn't need to exist.    ;-)   
   >>   
   >> You are succeeding in turning me off the future.   
   >   
   > Look on the bright side ... it looks like Microsoft will be gone by   
   > then.  ;-)   
   >   
   Sounds like a utopian dystopia.   
      
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   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   wouldn't tolerate.   
      
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