America, we need to talk
Sun Aug 16 2009 at 2:36:41
It s 2009. Near the corner of Future and Fucked, a group of men in battered work clothes is standing. Everybody in this group has a pocket communicator/computer more powerful than anything imagined in the original Star Trek: a device that they can use to talk to anybody else anywhere on the planet, listen to a whole day s worth of music or pick out new music recommended for them by computers, or read any document in a computer network that contains close to the sum of all recorded human knowledge. Every man on this corner holds a piece of The Future in his pocket. And what are they doing here? They re waiting to see if any white contractors will come by to hire them for a day s work, cheap immigrant labor building the Brave New World one luxury condominium at a time.