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On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:43:13 +0100, D wrote:

> Many centuries left. We'll mine the ocean floors, we'll reach for the
> stars (or at least asteroids). Eventually we'll expand beyond the earth.
> The people predicting crashes and famines have been wrong every time,
> except for when alternatives to capitalism has been tried. Then there
> have been real famines.

I worked summers for the NYS Dept. of Education and the basement corridors 
were filled with pallets of newspapers. (and 5 gallon buckets of water, 
reusable as toilets after the Ruskies attacked) I don't know if they were 
waiting to be microfilmed or stacked and forgotten.

I mostly read the funnies and old ads but I found a trove of 1929 
editions. "The fundamentals are sound!" as they took the express route 
down from the 30th floor.

I love a good science fiction yarn but I realize the space travel genre is 
mostly fiction. The dystopian worlds run by AI probably aren't.