In time you will come to regard [Colossus] not only with respect and awe, but with love.
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They accurately portrayed a lot of things that have come to pass, but the idea of breaking out of gender stereotypes was obviously completely unimaginable.
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The Rifftrax for this with Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson is pretty good.
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What does it say about me that I immediately recognized the announcer doing the voice-over narration as the mid-century actor Alexander Scourby?
It says that I’m OLD, that’s what. 
A couple of you have already pointed out the dearth of porn on these imagined home computers - but it’s also lacking the other great breakthrough of the digital age, arguing with and insulting strangers while you are sitting around in your underwear.
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Yup. And soiling keyboards with beer/mountain dew/doritos/various other things.
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Missing here is the part where wifey/mom tells her family she’s not running a damn restaurant and they can damn well eat whatever she’s fixing.
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You left out porn.
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Porn is implicit!
(it’s also kind of a mashup of watching television and buying… “something!”)
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Leisure is not the same as idleness.
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True for many people, but not true for all. For many people “free time” is pretty much synonymous with idleness/passive consumption of entertainment product.
So yea, I probably should have used the term idle. People who understand how to have meaningful leisure could have a meaningful life with very little work.
Happy to see everything looks exactly as predicted! Moms bathing suit, Boys wearing burqas. And that all in the first minute and a half!
The Future is NOW!
BTW, the ending song I cannot get out of my mind. #EarWorm
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