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Rant: Inertia represent!
Mar. 21st, 2006 11:08 pmOn Sunday we watched "I, Robot," which as Mike said was a good flick that was entirely unrelated to its title. It reminded me of something that annoys me about a lot of science fiction, though: there is no way that the world will look futuristic at any point in the next 300 years. No. Way.
I live in the Bay Area. There was a big earthquake here in 1989, 17 years ago. I was in elementary school in Colorado at the time, but even so I sort of remember the disruption of the World Series.
During that earthquake, a chunk fell out of the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. They patched it.
6 years later, they decided it needed to be replaced. ( That was 1995. Today: it's hardly even begun. )
I live in the Bay Area. There was a big earthquake here in 1989, 17 years ago. I was in elementary school in Colorado at the time, but even so I sort of remember the disruption of the World Series.
During that earthquake, a chunk fell out of the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. They patched it.
6 years later, they decided it needed to be replaced. ( That was 1995. Today: it's hardly even begun. )