this weird, wired world >> from the pen of boot

I know when I first read those trail-blazing authors of the Golden Age they made me dizzy with wonder and amazement.  However, I’m not sure I ever completely believed that any of those technological wonders could come true, certainly not when I was around to be a part of it. 

Oh, I wished it would come true.  Wished so hard that it hurt.  Stared at the sky and imagined the impossible and the unlikely, wished until the stars began to blur. 

I make fun of the things that didn’t eventuate, as have and do others - “where are all the flying cars?” ... “why don’t I have my own personal jet-pack?” ... “when are we going to control the weather already?” - but, in truth, what has eventuated in the ‘future’ is all the more magnificent in its everyday and ordinary way.  The things I see daily, the thing I’m using right now, the stuff I take for granted should leave me breathless and speechless.

There isn’t the right word for it yet, but this real world-wide-web, this community across the miles, spanning loneliness and inspiration, it is the product of everything those authors wished for, imagined and wrote about. 

I salute them all and I am glad I was here to see it.

posted June 7, 2006     4 comments

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