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Feb 10

Sharing My Stargate Address

I guess you have it as well, if you use Comcast as your Internet Service Provider. Apparently they have these little Stargates that allow us to travel to different.. well not planets yet ( we, as a young human race, are starting slow ), but zip codes for starters. Inter-continent near real time travel is also available. But, of course, Earth would be our scope for now. Hopefully all the wormholes are blacklisted, and every traveler is equiped with a reliable iris.

It all started as a hunch, but then was officially confirmed by the Comcast’s Freudian slip:
My Stargate Address

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19
Dec 07

Disney Predicts The Future in 1958

In 1958 “Disneyland” TV Show episode entitled “Magic Highway USA” an exploration into possible “their” future Transportation technologies is made.

It’s hard to believe how little we’ve accomplished on this front since 1958, and how limited the scope for imagining such future technologies has become. Witness an artifact from a time where the future was greeted with optimism. Note the striking animation style here, achieved with fairly limited animation and spectacular layouts:

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