“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes.....

[Gabi Hayes]

.... and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”

from a very good book by an author who saw our ultra-computerized (then) future much the way it is now (and becomes moreso each day) so presciently, almost 30 years ago.....

''We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did.

Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ...

We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”

[Gabi Hayes]

1. typical Romney voter?>>>>>

''.....best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka.

It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote.

Or by voting in presidential elections.”

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. Problem is that they look like everybody else.

Bodysnatchers.

[mick063]

4. Damn

Skimming through, I thought this was about Rush Limbaugh at first glance

[SheilaT]

3. Any chance you'll tell us the book or the author???

[Bonobo]

5. It's from "Count Zero" by William Gibson. nt

[SheilaT]

6. Thank you.