Comments on: The home of HEmlock 1

By: Moira Breen

Moira Breen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:08:50 +0000

I came over here just after watching a Fred Astaire video on youtube, so those lyrics went immediately into the tune of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”. It works, really.

By: Old Grouch

Old Grouch — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:11:33 +0000

Stan Freberg: “They took away our MurrayHills”

“With a hi-ho 370
And a merry 54433
Goodbye dear old prefix
Hello 736
Oh they’re a million laughs down at AT&T

By: Closet Atheist

Closet Atheist — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:06:40 +0000

Arthur C Clarke’s 3001 (fourth of the 2001 series) had everyones ID number being their birth date plus a 5-digit pin as an ID number for all things. Then again, all potential malcontents had been weeded out via a Braincap, so no one was really inclined to steal someone’s identity.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:22:00 +0000

In a Larry Niven short story it was mentioned in passing that the main character had, like all others in the future society in which he lived, one number. I forget how many digits it had, but it was his telephone number and his driver’s license number and his government entitlement-services number and his taxpayer ID number and his e-mail address and Twitter ID too — you get the idea.

It may surprise, well, nobody at all that the society was, if not dystopic, at least dyspeptic.