It’s always fun to read computer/science/tech magazines from the 80’s, and see just how far things have come in 30 years, and what predictions were way off. Even more so from the 1950s. Sometimes the things they herald as bizarre and never-going-to-happen have come to be so taken for granted that I can seem really old for talking about VCRs, and having to look in the newspaper to find out movie times. It strikes me that such is also the case with the Church, in some ways. But really, I just wanted to post the below image, made with The Pulp-o-mizer. It’s a bit limited in the right images, but captures the spirit.
And this on groundhog day, no less…
Ben,
You and Pulp-O-mizer made my day!
The ‘nacle has suddenly become so visual. Did I miss an announcement or something?
So in your cover illustration, are the women arriving at the Conference Center on a flying bus? THAT is never going to happen (flying busses, I mean).
As I recall, Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk book involved something awesome stored on an 8MB memory chip. Or maybe it was KB…