Happy New Year to you all! And I hope the year 2010 is off to a good start. It seems fine so far. But I can’t help but notice that we’re well into the 21st century and we still don’t have any Flying Cars.
In the absence of suitable opportunities for aviation in our world in this new decade, I’ve been working on Captain Everett’s world in 1926. This has involved any number of small but necessary site upgrades, revisions to the database… and installing the Forum.
Bechetti's reconstruction of the Forum in Rome (from wikipedia)
This last took a bit of work. Indeed, I cannot but wonder if those ancient Romans ever have similar problems with the original forum in Rome. Did Julius Caeser ever come walking down the Via Sacra to find a big ‘Error 404: Locus Not Found’ sign in front of the place, or to discover it filled with spam (from the Latin, spamus)? But it’s almost ready to go. And with or without a forum, Season Two is scheduled to begin…
…Monday! (Perhaps even Sunday if I post it a day early.)
Never mind flying cars — where are our robot girlfriends? Sexy androids were the whole POINT of a high-tech future!
Online forums have their problems — I had a miserable time getting a Google Group started — but brick-and-mortar forums are even worse. Rome is still running on Forum 1.0, and hasn’t even applied the Christianity patch, opting for a incompatible parallel installation on Vatican Hill instead.
Sexy androids (a Boomba?) might seem like an attractive concept, but what OS would they run? Linux? The words ‘high maintenance’ leap to mind. Unix? This could be just asking for trouble. And I don’t even want to think about Windows — presumably this would be some re-release of Windows ME.
I’ll stick with the flying cars. They seem safer
Realizing that responding to past blog entries is pretty much shouting at the wind, I would still like to throw down my opinion on “sexy androids”.
While I think they could have their place (think Pris, the “Basic Pleasure Model” in Blade Runner), no matter how realistic, they are still going to be just a simulator, compared to, say, hang gliding. Sure it’s dangerous, even deadly. You might crash and get hurt many times. But that one time in many when you SOAR! The first time you experience it, you know you can never go back to the simulator.