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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!bu.edu!wang!tegra!vail
- From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Prediction
- Message-ID: <3583@atlas.tegra.COM>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 22:19:53 GMT
- References: <6032@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
- Lines: 42
- In-reply-to: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil's message of 28 Aug 92 15:57:02 GMT
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- In article <6032@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:
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- In the future, as cable expands to an infinite number of channels and
- multi-media takes over computing as we know it, each newsfroup will have
- it's own channel and posts will be done as videos, animation, graphics,
- text, whatever the user feels like. However some things never change and
- Carasso and I will have our own channel for Followups-To misc.test.
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- So I walked up to her deck and jacked in. After the machine boots
- into my brain I find myself in virtual reconstruction of the same room
- I am was just physically in. The same except much cleaner and better
- organized.
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- I walk over to the bookshelf and browse through the titles on the
- spines: rec.cooking, alt.gravboard, alt.sex. More of the usual. I
- don't see what I am looking for.
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- I think maybe its somewhere else so I point my hands like superman and
- float into the bathroom. Ahhh, there it is! Behind the toilet. It
- has on old fashioned tooled leather cover with the words
- "talk.bizarre" embossed in gold.
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- Now, how do I work this fucking thing?
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- Let's see, its an Apple Business Machines Granny Smith 9000/LIX.
- What's their MUI slogan? "Point and Press"? "Look and Lick"? No,
- "Grasp and Shake", that's it. So I take the "book" in my metallic
- reflecting fingers and give it my best salad bottle shake.
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- I loose my focus as the paradigm changes. I find myself in a stone
- basement or dungeon except one wall looks like its made of thousands
- of video screens. A thousand different images flicker before me.
- Some are faces, some are Picasso-like color patterns. One is showing
- just a pair of h00ters. That must be Carasso. Another is an old
- fashioned TV colorbar test pattern. Right next to it is one slightly
- dimmer than the rest. And it's leaking mucous. Yup, it's rpwhite.
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- jv <- "the future is now at t.b"
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