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I went to a baseball game Friday evening. The Kansas City Royals were defeated by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. There were Walmart sponsored fireworks at the end and an unexpected show of lightning and hail after that. The freaky Kansas weather. I've decided to post vacation pictures only after vacation is actually over for lack of online time. My online existence has been replaced by the live one almost entirely, the way vacations are supposed to be.
Some one told me that science fiction has imagined or foreseen almost everything from life on Mars to teletransportation but has blatantly failed to anticipate the internet. Is that true?
Kansas City "reading tip": Hemingway's Kansas City Star stories.
Probably. I can't claim to know for sure since I'm not that prolific a
reader (or can you be prolific at reading?). I know William Gibson wrote
some books which talked about cyberspace back in the 80's, but his was a
cyberspace where more senses were involved than just vision and hearing -
it was more like virtual reality if I recal correctly. But by the time he
wrote those the internet had been around in one form or another for
probably 15 years or so. Not the web, of course, but the network behind
it...
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