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Subject: Re: New Pi 5 (Diversity - good or bad ?)
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On 1/15/25 4:13 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-01-14, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I think it was rbowman I was talking to - the
>>>>  boss wanted 'muzak' for the office. So, I took
>>>>  an old Pi-1/256mb and a few long muzak tracks
>>>>  from 70s shopping malls and sneaked the wiring
>>>>  into the PA system. The tracks rotate every
>>>>  month. Worked for a dozen years and likely STILL
>>>>  does - so long as none of the muzak haters FIND
>>>>  the thing.
>>>>
>>>>  There was about an inch behind where the PBX system
>>>>  was ... so I velcroed the unit to the back of the
>>>>  PBX box where it's almost perfectly invisible  :-)
>>>>
>>>>  Proper muzak - you shouldn't actually HEAR it unless
>>>>  you TRY. Keeps some little corner of the brain occupied
>>>>  and, according to some, thus actually improves performance
>>>>  on other tasks.
>>>
>>> It could very well become the last piece of operating machinery on 
>>> planet
>>> earth. Could you imagine the sun expanding, swallowing the earth while
>>> your little muzak machine plays the perfect muzak for the event? ;)
>>
>> That reminds me of the end of the post-acopalytic novel _Level 7_,
>> by Mordecai Roshwald.
> 
> Sigh... makes one despair of ever writing an original science fiction 
> novel! =(


   Hard to do now ... most everything will derive from
   many other existing sources/premises even if you try
   to avoid it. Kinda like rock/pop now ... last even
   remotely 'different' sound was 'grunge' - and that
   was 'remotely'.

   Someone from Pink Floyd once commented that the reason
   their music sounded so "different" was mostly because
   their skills with their instruments was initially SO
   poor - they COULDN'T emulate the popular bands  :-)

   Something really new - beyond 'space' and 'multiverses',
   'galactic empires', dubious 'time travel' and 'AI' - will
   have to be on the horizon before sci-fi can move up a notch.
   All that stuff is old and creaky and over-exploited.