seek wrote:
quoted 24 lines His thing as Stephen Bury - 'Interface' - was prescient:
> His thing as Stephen Bury - 'Interface' - was prescient:
> http://www.sandm.co.uk/mary/sfjournm/Interface/interface.html
> "Just how do you get elected President of America these days? You can sink a political career on TV
> in a few minutes if you make enough of fool of yourself; on the other hand if you look and sound
> good enough you can sway the nation. All you need to know is how well you're going down with the
> voters. Take a politician who's had a biochip implanted into his brain, linked to the computers
> that analyse the responses of the specially chosen market research volunteers, who represent the
> heights and depths of the great American people and you can work out exactly what you need to say
> to get your candidate elected. And then you control the President. Which is handy if you're a
> worldwide conspiracy wanting to get a firmer grip on the nation to stop the Treasury reneging on
> the national debt and undermining all your investments."
>
> The Battle of the Bulge:
> http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/bushbulge2.jpg
>
> http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3778
> "A neurolinguistic programming expert writes that Bush's eye movements are proof that he's
> listening. Haven't you noticed the odd pauses and the frequent looks down.... it most definitely
> appears that he is listening intently, then when he gets the message he looks up and speaks to the
> camera."
>
> http://www.isbushwired.com/
> "Ken Mehlman, Bush campaign manager:
> "The president is an alien. You heard it here first. The president is an alien.""
Thing is, if you go back and read Stephenson's books, he's eerily
prescient throughout. This is hardly the first time he's called the future.
--
The best show killed by Cartoon Network/Adult Swim:
Home Movies.
Season 1, Out on DVD - November 16th.
http://homemovies.toonzone.net/DVD.html
(Entertainment Weekly endorsed it after it was canceled - what does that
tell you?)
If he knows how the world works, how come he's done such an awful job?
Think about that next month.
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