Future Imperfect — ∵ after us
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Or how to stop worrying and love dystopia, by Manuel Sepulveda
Future Imperfect Or how to stop worrying and love dystopia by Manuel Sepulveda ‘Face the future, is it now? You can’t stop it anyhow!’ — Visage, Frequency 7 It’s 1984 — the real one. On my way home from school I pass a large, three-dimensional IBM logo that’s more statement than sign, a gleaming reminder that on the outskirts of the historic town of Winchester the software of tomorrow is being designed at IBM’s research lab. Further into town, I steam up the window of the Apple retailer, ogling the newly launched Macintosh, its advertising already having convinced me that ‘1984 won’t be like N
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