(08-01-2023, 07:10 PM)BIAD Wrote:(08-01-2023, 06:38 PM)Ninurta Wrote: ...That may be the farming model for the future - small plots, distributed throughout forest in small clearings,
rather than large fields to "feed the world" as we see now....
...Just grow enough to feed you and yours, with a little left over to sell at local "popup" farmer's markets...
So... John Titor was right!!
(Or you're Mr Titor!)
SHHHH! You'll blow my cover, and the Time Bureau will revoke my travel papers!
To be honest, what Titor said made a lot of sense in the main - but I was always a bit dubious of his "shotgun battalions". Using captured weapons capable of resupply from captured supply lines makes more sense to me - not a lot of shotgun ammo on infantrymen in the main, and carrying it in bulk is a real bitch.
I think he was probably not really a time traveler, but instead a prognosticator making predictions of the future by projecting the present state of affairs (circa 2000) to it's logical conclusion. Where he went off the rails was setting dates to enhance the narrative and make himself more convincing... until those dates came and went without the prediction occurring on them. Still, the trajectory is still sound, it's just a bit longer than he predicted.
One of the things he said still sticks with me - "it's a no-brainer... until it becomes a no-armer and no-legger".
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A dystopian short story has been rolling around in my head for some time now, trying to write itself. It's set about 200 years in the future from now, but all the details have not yet resolved themselves. It doesn't involve time travel, but it IS a bit of predictive fiction projecting current affairs into a dystopian future.
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