I have been watching All Things Kirk and Spock lately, including some of the original-cast movies. Which means that recently I saw The Wrath of Khan. ( Spoilers for the second Star Trek movie )
Huh. I am a middle-button girl. Consistently. I suspect that has a lot to do with the SF authors I read most heavily when I was a teenager -- Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Sturgeon. According to the pictures they painted in my mind, we ain't there yet.
Heh, I was just thinking, all my buttons were top buttons and I wonder if it isn't age-related, not so much the scifi influences, since I read Heinlein too, but I remember black and white tv and when it went off at midnight, replaced by a high pitched tone and a static picture or, later, the waving flag, and I was a teen when we got our first microwave and we were such early adopters of the vcr technology that we bought a beta.
Not far off. I'm a little younger, but not much. Old enough to have seen Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the theater. Young enough to have done so. 8-)
Oh! Can I add fashion disasters to the list? Oh, wait, I caught enough of the recent Music Awards to know what Lady Gaga wore. Never mind.
My future has a soundtrack filled with synthesizers and distortion.
I'm not ashamed to say it: I clicked "Yes" to the reproductive miracle question just so I could feel like I, personally, am a reproductive miracle, although I think non-test-tube reproduction is pretty miraculous already.
You are a reproductive miracle! (And must especially have been for your parents - IVF is a hard, hard row to hoe.)
Actually, having done the thing where you start out with two cells and end up with an ACTUAL HUMAN BEING, I have to agree: reproduction is always a miracle. IFV is amazing, and micropreemies who survive are amazing, but just babies are amazing. Wow.
Though I watched a LOT of Star Trek growing up, I confess that my vision of the future comes more from The Jetsons. When I have a flying car and I can eat my meals in capsule form, we're in the future.
The funny part is that I've never seen The Jetsons, and yet I still firmly believe that it isn't the future without a flying car. (Meals in pill form I can live without.)
And possibly you didn't imprint on Star Trek because you didn't want your future to be ENTIRELY RED AND GREY. Not that I am judging the set designers or anything. Not at ALL.
It's not the future until I can cheaply and conveniently access the internet anywhere I want to, so I'd say it'll be the future in about... two years? ;)
I'm going to be very disappointed if we don't get space tourism while I'm still young and healthy enough to go up there, though. I'd also like a car with an environmentally-friendly energy source, and the ability to pick my offspring's gender. Sadly, it doesn't look like teleportation will happen in my lifetime (now that REALLY would be the future).
This is already technically possible. It is possible to separate Y sperm from X sperm. The beef/milk industry does it now. The beef people want all males (more meat) and the milk people want all females (more milk).
The issue with humans is an ethical one. At this point in time, the prevailing view (among lawmakers and scientists) is that it is unethical to make this choice. (Please note I make no moral judgement myself.)
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Oh! Can I add fashion disasters to the list? Oh, wait, I caught enough of the recent Music Awards to know what Lady Gaga wore. Never mind.
My future has a soundtrack filled with synthesizers and distortion.
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Actually, having done the thing where you start out with two cells and end up with an ACTUAL HUMAN BEING, I have to agree: reproduction is always a miracle. IFV is amazing, and micropreemies who survive are amazing, but just babies are amazing. Wow.
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And possibly you didn't imprint on Star Trek because you didn't want your future to be ENTIRELY RED AND GREY. Not that I am judging the set designers or anything. Not at ALL.
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I'm going to be very disappointed if we don't get space tourism while I'm still young and healthy enough to go up there, though. I'd also like a car with an environmentally-friendly energy source, and the ability to pick my offspring's gender. Sadly, it doesn't look like teleportation will happen in my lifetime (now that REALLY would be the future).
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This is already technically possible. It is possible to separate Y sperm from X sperm. The beef/milk industry does it now. The beef people want all males (more meat) and the milk people want all females (more milk).
The issue with humans is an ethical one. At this point in time, the prevailing view (among lawmakers and scientists) is that it is unethical to make this choice. (Please note I make no moral judgement myself.)
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AFAIK, in China, they do their selection, er, post-partum-ly. Have they learned nothing from fiction!
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