Re: EchoBay.com & The Pez Candy Dispenser

Ï "John D Salt" <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá 
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> richardcasady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Casady) wrote in
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>> On 20 Apr 2008 14:57:59 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.
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>> No ****? On the other hand, predictions about the past are not that
>> hard.
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> Ah, a non-historian.
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> All the best,
A much more famous example for future predictions is George Orwell's 1984,

in which there are no computers but machines "kaleidoskopes" that write 
books and "speakwrites" instead of word processors, but he did predict
flat 
panel "telescreens". He calls biros "ink-pencils".


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