"You have likely noticed that a great many things in your world are inefficient and unjust. At times you may find it implausible that this status quo can hold when there is so obviously a better way to do one thing, and a kinder way to do another, and so on, and that all these ways sync up, snap together and should just plain work. It seems obvious, yes?"

"Do not be alarmed. Well, actually, you can and perhaps should be alarmed, but please also understand that memory turbulence is a perfectly normal side-effect of trans-temporal projection. It's for the best. If you could consciously remember the future you're from, you'd be stuck quivering from culture shock and moral outrage. And that won't do. We spent a lot of time and energy - and you sacrificed a lot - to put you this far in the past on what we all admit is a kind of long-shot plan to make sure that things turn out right. Now go find the other people in your cell, whether they're from the same future or something close enough. (The future is inherently wobbly) Make friends, remember what you can as a collective, and take the necessary steps. Your task will be difficult, but the results are awesome. Hope is a thing we build here and now."

"Now get cracking."

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And this is where the dream becomes lucid. Not as in "aha, I'm dreaming!" more like, "coffee would be nice but I prefer agency."

Well. This place is closed this early. Let's see what's ahead - what's in the future for sex-work?
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We're out in the cariboo at 312-03:45:22, stringing. Double-checking the vitals on slug-like hubs, each chloroable synthimal a queen to a thousand lazy drones. Squishy little creatures. Hiding in gopher holes, under scrub, between scraps of shale. They keep an eye on the neighbours, their heaps and tailings. Just like the neighbours keep an eye on us.
Science-Fiction Narrative )
The first four questions.
You have five days left to ask.

1. Are you an optimist or pessimist?

Short Answer:
Increasingly optimistic. Slightly, but more healthily, pessimistic.


2. Is our civilization, as we know it, going to survive another 100 years?

Short: Absolutely not.

3. What is your opinion of religion? Good, bad? Should it stay, should it go? If it goes will there be trou- okay I'll stop.
Short: No short answer


4. Are you going to feel alienated by the beach this year?
Short: Yes, but I have a way around it.






*as in "what is is what can be touched," not as in "greed"
I was washing up when she came through the door behind me. She caught my eye in the mirror, then turned and flipped open the door again to leave.

"You're in the right washroom," I shout, as the 'woman' sign swings by her face.

She turns again, walks past me silent, awkward.

I've spent a good chunk of time now watching movie trailers and studying calculus and have come to be intrigued by the possibilities of some related mathematical functions.

1. Length of any given cut in a movie trailer as a function of year, genre and length of trailer. (cf. X-Men 3)

2. Prevalence of attention deficit disorder in the general population as a function of function #1, or vice-versa

3. Fraction of trailers with voice over by Hal Douglas and Don LeFontaine as a function of year.

4. Length of time between original movie and remake, or remake and re-remake as a function of year and genre. (cf. King Kong, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

According to my calculations, the year 2056 will see AI emulations  of Douglas and LeFontaine squabbling over the audio track of the simulataneous fifith threugh seventh remake of the 1897 classic  "Studies of Time and Motion: Ascending a Staircase." This will prove a less a challenge to narrate as market as future projectors will be unable to diplay cuts that are shorter than planc's time.

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