Talk:Stand on Zanzibar
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[edit] Room-mate
I think we need to pay more attention to that comment that the room-mate is an analyst. In fact Brunner called him a synthesist and spent a fair amount of time describing what he did. I'll come back when I can and edit the entry myself, but in the meantime there are a few web pages available to draw from with descriptions etc and I think it's important to draw the distinction. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.50.164.147 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 6 February 2006.
[edit] John Brunner
It feels odd to be here 36 years in John Brunner's future when Stand on Zanzibar was published, discussing it. Odd, but sort of cool. I hope that other people who disagree with what I have to say post here, because agreeing on stuff creates no new knowledge.
The first thing I want to say is that John Brunner was just one hell of a good futurist.
My next post is going to be an experiment - my copy of MS Word 2000 creates tables and can export them to HTML. I've tried and (this was a new experience for me) succeeded on the first try to export a table I created this way to my blog, which is sort of semi-HTML. (if you're interested, my blog, tables and all, is at n + 1}
Anyway, I created a list of predictions in Stand on Zanzibar which was organized into:
"came true," "likely to come true, and "unlikely to come true."
I'm going to try to re-create this list, but with a new category - "I have no idea how likely this is to come true" - to reflect my newfound sense of humility on having realized I know a hell of a lot less than I thought I knew when I first read Stand on Zanzibar back when I was 20.
See ya around the block.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vfrickey (talk • contribs) 03:18, 5 September 2004.
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