The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
– Pete Seeger
Tag: future
#quikfic 26
My future self came and told me how terrible and lonely his life was. I chose another path, which put us both out of our misery.
Quotable 66
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
– Frank Herbert
Fiction: Unnatural Selection
“And when she went to the drugstore to get more aspirin,” Frank said, “they told her she’d already bought the government-set limit for the month. Of course, her husband couldn’t buy it either.”
“Shhh!”
“What’s wrong, Janie?”
“Quiet!”
Outside, a soft drone quickly grew, and the children burst through the back door, screaming.
“Turtles! Turtles!”
“I hear them now,” Frank said.
“Make sure the windows are closed,” Janie said. “I’ll check upstairs.”
Fiction: Information Technology
“I’d like to preview the product,” Ashlan said, “before buying it.”
“Naturally,” Connor said. He placed a flash drive in a port on his laptop and called up the media viewer.
Ashlan leaned forward as images of documents appeared on the screen. The scene was misty at the edges, but the words on the pages were clear enough. Ashlan took special note of the dates on the pages, which were two years in the future.