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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
But if you turned on the water and got nothing (or worse yet, got something that has no right to be in a pipe), that might be the start of a story.
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Like, say,
A MOVING FINGER!
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I agree that a lot of Steve's ideas for the future (his police-state Internet, for instance) are not just undesirable but in some cases even destructive. But I think we have to distinguish between the future he wants to see (that police state, for instance) and the future he wants to write about (one that contains struggle and conflict).
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I think it's about learning that, "Wow, this future would be terrible, I'm going to do everything I can to prevent it!" I didn't read 1984 and think it was an awesome idea for the future. I read it and was horrified. But I was also enthralled and found it to be a good read. Books like that can make for compelling reading and also be a lesson about how to change our ways to avoid such a future.
The movie Gattaca comes to mind as a work that warns us on the potential problems of genetic engineering. It's also a made-up word in the title that is pronounceable and spellable
