Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?
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Quexotic@infosec.pub 8 months ago
“The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”
Here we go…
Silentiea@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Quexotic@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Your guess is as good as mine. Let’s just hope that they didn’t also see any copies of The Limits to Growth as well. It was a scientific report published in 1972 by a think-tank. Using computer models developed at MIT, the authors warned that continuing on business-as-usual population and consumption growth trajectories would likely lead to societal collapse within the next 100 years.
I don’t know about you but I’m excited!
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fahrenheit 451?
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Or Celsius 232.778 as it is known outside the US.
I didn’t think the name flows off the tongue as well though.
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It would if you kept the number of significant digits the same.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Perhaps even better.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Yes.