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1. Guillaume (postblue@herds.eu)'s status on Monday, 01-Aug-2016 14:59:12 UTC Guillaume
   The dystopian future we imagined in the 80s was much cooler than the dystopian future we are living now.
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   • Bob Mottram (bob@primatemind.info)'s status on Thursday, 11-Aug-2016 15:36:00 UTC Bob Mottram

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     @postblue People often used to say that the future was not what was promised. "Where's my jetpack" and all that. But that was the future of the baby boomers. I grew up in the 1980s, and the future back then was Mad Max, Judge Dredd and Neuromancer. I think that prediction was a lot more accurate. Corporations run everything, and are the puppetmasters of governments. Everything is under mass surveillance. Political corruption is the normal state of affairs. Gated communities and militarized police. Amazing technology and appalling poverty sit side by side.
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