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Originally Posted by latepaul
On the question of why America was homophobic, it was a more conservative society in general. Less swearing, lots of referring to people as "sir" and fines for long hair. I think perhaps this was supposed to be because America was locked in a cold war with Nazi Europe much earlier and longer and that tends to lead to more conservatism? I don't know. It wasn't something that was explored much.
Oh, and I did like the alternate versions of computers. I liked that things weren't really that different just different names and tweaks to what we have (had in '96). Apart from voice recognition. It's a wonderful technology in many ways but it's never going to replace keyboards. I wouldn't want to dictate the few hundred words in this post never mind a full thesis. And can you imagine the noise in offices and classrooms?
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I got the impression that he was presenting an America (socially) locked in the 50s, but couldn't work out why. At the time this was written the cold war with Russia had not long faded, so why should we think a cold war with Germany would have been so different?
Now if he'd highlighted that the world had missed out on The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, The Animals and more, then maybe we could all see just how big the disaster was and know that history had to be fixed.
