February 6ths

2/6/1997

A Pollyanna projection: "By the year 2021, we'll colonize Mars and we'll be able to download all our entertainment from government servers..." Earth-Mars communications will be problematic as it takes four minutes for transmission. How long would it take to download our "entertainment"? Which begs the question: Do we want to spend our lives downloading Earth on Mars?

"StarTrek-y" shows need to use more anachronisms, e.g. 78 records, Victorian-era clothing to offset the assumption that "in the future, the world will look like THIS." It would be more convincing if they used bits and pieces from different eras, which is what the real world is anyway

2/6/2011

Anachronistic Time Inversion 'officially' finished as of six minutes to 11 this morning. Interesting context collision: Reagan's 100th birthday is today. Reagan hit his stride because history was on his side. He ultimately took America down the wrong road.