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He is seen in the likeness above in a rare, 19th century woodcut. This
image was rumoured to have been
commissioned after a bout of unpleasantness
in the White Chapel district of London. Do enjoy your stay and peruse our many, varied offerings, much of which cannot be found elsewhere!
::Today's soundtrack: Rob Zombie "Scum of the Earth" ::
Is the future going to suck? According to much of the fiction out there, it sure seems like it. I mean, if we were going to get to live in the happy, clean, push button world of tomorrow, we would already be there by now. All of the sci-fi serieses which featured a good future have had key moments in their history already take place. I mean, I don't remember Khan Noonien Singh conquering most of Asia in the 1990s, but maybe I wasn't paying attention to the news at the time. Yes, all of the pleasant future scenarios involve a gradual build up, almost an evolution towards that utopian future. All of the horrific, dystopian futures on the other hand, all occur rather suddenly and with little warning.
They always start the same though, don't they? Some scientist will announce a break through in something and in less than a year's time we've all gone to Hell in a handbasket. Oh look, you've discovered a fast and easy cure for cancer have you? Fast forward six months and the world is fraught with blood thirsty fiends. Look at this superb advancement in computer processing! Less than two years later we're either all attached to pods in a gigantic human harvesting farm or locked in a never ending battle against super-robots. Or maybe there will be some new super weapon and somebody actually uses the thing and instantly half the world is razed into a desert (it's almost always a desert, isn't it?) and human kind is reduced to roaming bands of demented cyber punks and leather clad lone wolf types. Oh and a colony of lost children thrown in there. Got to have that feral children tribe.
Oh wait, it could turn out to the wanton world government terrible future. You know the sort, where the government somehow turns into this all knowing and all powerful super entity with impossibly stringent rules and a penchant for obedience through the use of rat masks. Strength through purity and all that. Now that I think about it, maybe the soul crushing government future comes after the world decimation future? Maybe people are so desperate to rebuild society that they surrender all of their freedoms in exchange for "being taken care of" by a dominating tyrant?
This is a tough call, but I think either of those would be preferable to one of those fake utopian future societies. You know the one, where everything looks like it's a perfect, organized, and peaceful society, but it really isn't. There is something awful going on that nobody knows about or chooses to ignore. Something like a forced class society or even slavery being key for this so called utopia to function properly. Or maybe some huge corporation owns and runs everything and we only think there is a government and have freedoms when really we don't. That sort of future would really suck because it is kind of like being brainwashed, whereas at least in a monster ridden or nuked into a desert society we know exactly where we stand and there is no pretense of goodness.
So, what do you think? I say we still haven't got flying cars, so we are therefore in the preliminaries for some sort of awful dystopian future. Personally, I think if it isn't going to be a zombie apocalypse then we are going to have one of those man versus super sentient computer war futures. Look around you. The internet keeps on getting bigger, better, and more intricate. Faster connections, better browsers, technological advances that would have boggled the mind twenty years ago. It's only a matter of time before the very internet achieves sentience and enslaves us all. Oh wait... it already has.
William the Bloody (gettin' me a tank to roam that future desert)
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