Jonathan Coulton - Future Soon @ Bumbershoot

[batmanthecool]

i would have said that laughter was canned it this wasnt live, i know its a clever song but jesus..

[mprizams]

Agreed, this song is pretty good, but it's not a fuckin' comedy show.

[msbfd]

Ack! It is TOO MUCH exactly like something that happened to me, right down to the girl being named Laura. Except that it happened to me in about 1970, not 1985.

[twentysides]

Between the gag lines there is something so sweet and honest that I almost want to cry. Maybe it has something to do with sharing that geekiness and naive imagination in my youth.

[TheSecondChild]

I was promised flying cars. I demand my flying car.

[aitshi]

We have a catapult that can launch up to 5 tons. Close enough?

[jdbigmac]

They were positing what we might be capable of. What science fiction writers and scientist rarely think about is ecconomics. We can do all those things you said right now, it's just, for now, there's no money in it.

[advancedatheist]

Hey, I read a lot of that literature back in the 1970's & 1980's, by FM Esfandiary, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary et al. They predicted that "by the year 2000" we'd have space colonies, solar power satellites, biological immortality, transhuman intelligences, swinging polyamorous families, etc. What happend to that future?

[msbfd]

We voted Republican and made killing and torture devices instead.

[EmoticonProductions]

aaaaah He set you up for that

[lehman]

aka don't have faith in predictions of the future.

[hyrulianshinobi333]

faith in predictions is fine, they just mess up the timeline

[lehman]

But people make it out to be a promise or something.

If I hear another person say "where are our jetpacks?" i'm gonna shoot them

[zeashun]

Then she eyed me suspiciously...

[romanerdstrom]

"It's not your fault... or is it?" :D