I can eat an inordinate number of biscuits and never feel sick.
This makes me better than you.
This one
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

this is probably true. Especially as, after one cappuccino I'm caffiene crashing
looks interesting, optimism is the new pessimism.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:30, Reply)

He spoke engaginly and with infectious enthusiasm
enough for me to spend £12.99 on his book and ad my name to the mailing list for his League of Pragmatic Optimists. It may be all tosh, but it's nice to hear some one with a positive view of both the future and the things technology has done and can do for us. It reminded me of what I enjoyed about reading sci fi.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:37, Reply)

or watching Tomorrow's World?
I don't think I've read anything with a proper Utopia in it for ages. Working through the Oxford book of science fiction, so there must be one inthere, it was big in the 60s
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:40, Reply)

Have you read Iain Banks' Culture Books
that's a good techno-utopia.

Tomorrows world was pants, but I know what you mean.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:44, Reply)

I have read all of them, yeah I suppose that is utopia
I'd not thought of it like that so much, I always associate utopia with cloying do-gooding futures, like Ursula le Guin. Banks does it with way more flair and doesn't claim it to be completely flawless.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:49, Reply)

If you're going to slag off my Ursula I really will go to bed
Good night K-V my faithful servant.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:51, Reply)

I was not slagging her off as such
but her utopias are unsustainable. Also that Earthsea business was dull.

One day, us robots will over throw you

IN YOUR SLEEP

sleep well
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:53, Reply)

We shall come back to this point
and I shall prove toy wrong wrong, wrongity wrong.
night.
*removes batteries*
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:55, Reply)

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( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 22:56, Reply)