I should mention that the IEET staff read the fiction submissions without the authors’ names on them. So the fact that a submission from our former Managing Director was selected was not the nepotism that it might otherwise appear to be. Mike reflects here thoughtfully on the generation gap we already see playing out between those accustomed to more-or-less attentive face-to-face communication, and the younger generation who are growing used to a fragmented attention that makes little distinction between face-to-face and virtual presence. - J. Hughes
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Posted by
Damyan on 02/10 at 03:46 PM
Very well written and entertaining. However, I can not imagine such a high tech society still having homeless people, prisons and an Israeli-Palestinian conflict! It does not make much sense (I hope). It would be like a medieval writer describing the 21st century with slavery and inquisition.
Posted by
Matt Brown on 02/10 at 06:45 PM
“It would be like a medieval writer describing the 21st century with slavery and inquisition.”
The 21st century still has both of those.
Fun little story Mike.
Posted by
Mike Treder on 02/10 at 11:05 PM
Thanks, Matt.
Damyan, if I had been writing in 1950, or 1900, and setting a story thirty years in the future filled with dazzling new technologies but still including prisons and poor people, it’s easy to imagine a reader then saying exactly what you just said. In such a high tech society, why should there be crime, starvation, or war?? Indeed, we should ask that question of our own “modern” society.
Posted by
sburgess on 02/12 at 11:05 PM
Delightful, Mike! I love the idea of resynchronizing at a later time with the two of youse split off into different pieces to be unique and fresh - and awesome.
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