Life imitates SF

[peteryoung]

Keith Olberman on George W. Bush lying about the NIE: "The nightmare scenario of political science fiction".   (via jrittenhouse)

Not quite Jetsonesque: Home computers, e-mail, e-commerce, fingertip shopping, webcams, online bill payment and desktop laser printers... all predicted in the 1967 short film Year 1999 A.D. It's also quaint for its ’60s male/female stereotyping, the evolution for which the film-makers unfortunately hadn't applied any imagination, otherwise it's a well thought out and detailed prediction.

Stop that, it's silly: soldiers as superhuman Mech warriors.

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[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

When Father gets the print out of his bills, I thought of how early Star Trek had people off camera opening and closing the automatic doors -- and briefly imagined someone under the desk, pushing out the paper on cue.