None of those would astonish me in 1997. I'd say "living in the future" (which we were saying in 1997), but only in the same spirit as I say it today. In 1987 I'd be impressed (because I wasn't personally on Usenet yet), but not until I think back to 1977 do I start to think how amazed I'd be, and mostly I'd be amazed at how humanity has effectively stopped caring about space exploration. I expected a return to the moon, a Mars mission, a better space station than this one, and the successor to the Space Shuttle by 2007. Of the Space Shuttles, Enterprise was built in 1976, Columbia in 1979, and Discovery, which is still flying today, in 1983.
So it's a future, just not the future I put my name on the waiting list for.
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Date: Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 03:08 pm (UTC)So it's a future, just not the future I put my name on the waiting list for.