Yeah, I’m fairly randomly, listening to Pattern Recognition by William Gibson when walking/running and the lack of smartphones is the biggest jarring thing. They have mobile phones but they use them as telephones.
The absolute savages.
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I read the article this morning and it’s more interesting than that quote btw.
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I’m going to interview an AI chatbot based on Linda Lovelace next week, what should I ask it?
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How to do cold fusion.
Bill Gates says we don’t need to worry about pollution from AI as it will solve fusion and get rid of all our problems.
Time to shit or get off the pot AI!
And a chatbot of Linda Lovelace is exactly as likely to invent workable cold fusion as whatever spicy autocomplete Redmond has in the pipeline.
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If he’d only lived two more years . . .
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I love Plate of Shrimp moments.
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This is exactly why we need a carbon tax. Make dumb ideas have a price. He thinks fusion is going to solve this “soon”? Fine, pay the bill until then.
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Kurt Cobain could easily have seen GPS. My memory is dim but Wikipedia says GPS was available to the public in the 80’s and the full constellation of satellites was in the sky in 1993. Cobain died in 1994.
Yes the blue spot came much later.
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i rather think that the point that Dame Mirren is making, in her way of looking back at her years and the wonders she had lived to see, is the ubiquitous GPS and, by extension, the ubiquitousness of hand-held mobile devices to platform it (the GPS).
it also strikes me, sentimentally, that she is wistful and saddened by youth cut short. her particular choice of Mr. Cobain, while seemingly odd, is a very good example of just the sort of young talent that could have achieved much more. that she is saddened by this in her late years, i feel, is a testament to a thoughtful woman who has lived a wonderful life, full of experiences, that it saddens her to think of those not so fortunate.
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We do need to stop subsidising fossil fuels and start subsidising real carbon neutral power hard.
But can we not tax Bill Gates to the fucking bone? Seriously, can he and his billionaire buddies be the very last people we rescue from homelessness on the streets?
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Sorry I’m late…
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It’s so sad that Isaac Newton never got to see the bank-shot maneuvers they use to send space probes into the outer solar system.
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I’m more saddened by the fact that Benjamin Franklin never got to play Tetris.
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Not sure why this is funny or contemptible. Kurt Cobain killed himself, and many of us were young and hurt by his death. 
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By the third book in the Bigend series the iPhone has come out, and it comes up quite a bit, as it transforms a lot of what was set up in the earlier books. Suddenly things that were dedicated peripherals are apps (for the locative art and other things) and characters remark upon it.
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