Yet, from pandemics to climate change, social media to the robotization of the planet that TomDispatch regular John Feffer describes today, nothing that I read once upon a time, no matter how futuristic, no matter how strange or apocalyptic, prepared me for the everyday world I now find myself in at age 77.īack in the days of the pen and manual typewriter (remember, I’ve been an editor most of my life), if you had told me that, were I someday to mistakenly spell “life” as “kife,” the spell-check program on my computer (yes, an actual computer!) would promptly underline it in red to let me know that I had goofed, I would never have believed you. Wells met my first robot with Isaac Asimov faced the apocalyptic world of those aggressively poisonous plants, the Triffids, with John Wyndham and met Big Brother with George Orwell. After all, I went to the moon with Jules Verne saw London being destroyed with H.G. In my younger years, I had significant experience with futuristic worlds, sometimes of the grimmest sort.
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