STRANGEWAYS

[mistersleepless]

(I wrote this in the pub today, in about forty minutes. Haven't decided what it is yet. I tend to use this format as the early working draft for comics scripts, so don't be misled by its screenplay/teleplay kind of look. If a second half appears, I'll run it here.)EXT. CITY HALL

Comments

[nerd_king]

Nice work Warren.

Out of interest, who came up with the idea of Future Shock in the first place?

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[mistersleepless]

Pretty sure it was Alvin Toffler.

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[nerd_king]

I think it was the name of a Herbie Hancock album too.

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[prodigal]

Toffler was the one that wrote the book that popularised the term, at the very least.

[algor]

Entertaining and elucidating as always. Thanks.

[rainbow_slinky]

I like :)

[kierthos]

I'm not so sure this isn't needed now. A Department of Future Shock, that is... I mean, we've gone from from the Wright Brothers to Mars in 100 years, from fill-the-room computers used to calculate trajectories to sit-on-your-desk instant porno (or anything else) PCs that make the fill-the-room ones look not just obsolete (which they are), but like a bad Hollywood prop in 50 years.

Genetic Engineering of crops, of animals, of people. Who knows what's next? I mean, I sure wouldn't mind a pair of cybereyes to replace the flawed (and slowly degenerating) orbs I currently have, especially if I can get cable reception on them, but I have to wonder if we're going a bit too fast sometimes...

[beatniqe]

ya know, i feel ya on the whiskey. jamisons? or jack?

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[mistersleepless]

Get away from me. Springbank Campbeltown. Glen Albyn. I am a working man here.

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[kierthos]

How do you feel about single-malt Glenmorangie?

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[mistersleepless]

I cook with it.