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From: tek@ukma.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Just how dark is the future ?
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 22:46:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 22:46:40 1987
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Reply-To: tek@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Kunselman)
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I don't think these books are necessarily describing a future that is any
worse or better than the present, rather in some of them they are merely
describing a sub-culture of the larger world where the story takes place.

In fact is is possible to choose the kind of environment you want to live
in even now and I think that even should the future become a world of 
plenty and paradise for all that we would eliminate slums.  Some people
just like to live that way, and if I want to live in a run-down house
with six other people that probably won't change if I were to inherit a
million.  I suppose the cops would be less likely to bother me tho:-)

Technology makes an interesting bedfellow.

Thomas Kunselman