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QC - The Movie
Is it cold in here?:
http://www.paleofuture.com/
Collection of imaginings of the future decade by decade starting in the 19th century.
Tergon:
I think the "Sheen" isn't as obvious because, well, at the risk of being slapped for saying so... the "Sheen" has become a market issue. Everything is being sold as The Wave Of The Furute. Every single Apple product is given a furutistic name with the i- suffix, and made of smooth white or black casing with touchscreens. Everything is wireless. Everything is supposed to be so neat and futuristic that nothing stands out. If it's all got a sheen, then after a while you... just stop noticing it's there.
And as far as looking for that "Quantum Leap Forward", well, I think that's just part of the sheen effect you're looking for. Everything claims to be revolutionary new technology, but realistically, that almost never works. I think the best example is the SmartCard (to give it one of the many names it's had). Y'know, the card that functions as an ID toshow who you are, a keycard to enter locked doors, mini-credit card to use public transport or whatever... I can think of half a dozen times that tried to get off the ground, and how it was guaranteed we'd all be using them soon! And they never did.
People genuinely don't like bold, new, out-of-nowhere technologies. We like evolutionary steps from one existing thing to the next. All the proof you need is in every single Brand New Idea that was dripping with sheen, and which failed dismally.
Which is why I think a QC movie would work so well. AnthroPCs are just the natural evolution of an iPhone and one of those little robot dog things. And you know they're coated with a thick, greasy layer of sheen.
Well, a thick greasy layer of... something.
Carl-E:
Lets hope it's not this...
Don't mind me, though. I like living in the future, I really do. Sometimes I have the same Gee Whiz moments Raoullefere speaks of, and sometimes I really do see the sheen again.
I think the holiday just has me down. Another summer gone, and all the projects I had lined up (and have had lined up for several years) are still un-begun.
Oh, and I totalled my car Friday. Hit a bear. I now have no way to get to work.
Fucker ran off into the woods, too. Didn't even have the decency to be seriously injured...
Bleah.
raoullefere:
A bear? Christ almighty.
Carl, I'm beginning to think whoever's out to get me is after you, too. And it seems to want you more. Much more.
Tergon:
On the plus side you can now introduce yourself as a Bear Fighter. And since it ran, that's a forfeit, so you win.
You are a VICTORIOUS Bear Fighter.
Screw the future, I want to go back to a time when that was all the cred you needed to be, freaking, Barbarian King.
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