You know, Augur, if you look at the inside cover of Heinlein’s The Past Through Tomorrow you’ll find a timeline running from 1939 (the year in which he wrote Lifeline) through to about 2255 or so.

So, this has been done already, sixty-six years ago by the author that some readers of this blog are tired of hearing about. However, I like a challenge and just might give it a shot. Keep in mind, though, that part of the reason that it’s called the Singularity is that what happens once you reach its horizon, nothing can be understood about what happens next.

Actually, the more I think about this idea, the more I like it. We can call it, My Past Through Tomorrow. I’ll get right on it.

Porno *is* being recycled. There’s a very famous young woman named Anna Marek who was 18 or 19 when a series of photos were taken of her in Poland in 1992. I still run across them in interesting places.

The classic films like Insatiable and Up and Coming still have quite a following, too.

Tom

#4
It is a little too easy for you to make sweeping predictions about the indefinite future and what a radically different world we will have in 40 years. While this might seem radical to some, part of your vision seems plausible to me (but not necessarily likely). It might help some readers if you were to push yourself a little harder and lay out a time line of what you anticipate changing to get us there in:

1) six months
2) one year
3) five years
4) ten years
5) twenty years
6) thirty years

If you could give us a rough roadmap/ timeline of innovation and social response it might make this vision much easier to grasp, and it might make for a magnificent outline of a book. You could break this into a series of articles.

#5
Why do we still need porno production rates to be so high. Shouldn’t there be enough old stuff to relieve our collective tension? I’m no expert, but to the best of my knowledge societies taste in pornos hasn’t been changing that much in the last few years to justify the increased supply. Do you think the old stuff just isn’t marketed and branded past first production? It seems a company could be very profitable just buying the rights and repackaging old stuff and rebranding/ selling it.

Your buddy,
Augur

Yours always,
Augur

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