T-Rex: The year: tomorrow! It was the far-off future of 2022, over 80 years from now!
T-Rex: And Citizen Brown, a hitherto-ordinary man, was just getting out of bed!
T-Rex: He then spun up his home terminal, which connected to the global supercomputer MULTIVAC: a machine so large that parts of it could only exist in hyperspace. The terminal whirred and clicked as its calculating electronic brain produced a printout of the day's news, all of it personalized exclusively for him. His stocks were up... but his popularity was DOWN!
Utahraptor: Oh no! Citizen Brown! T-Rex: Hold on, we're getting to the best part!
T-Rex: "What changed?" Citizen Brown said, and his terminal clattered as it processed new data, this time showing that while 4 of his friends had liked that input, 120 strangers had shared it with THEIR friends under a privacy screen! MULTIVAC would tell him he WAS being discussed, but not what was said!
Off panel: Wait a sec... this is just social media described as a 40s scifi story! T-Rex: Gwendolyn's Omni-Patty, a chain of fast-service hamburger restaurants, soon began mocking Citizen Brown with the ultimate goal of selling more meat sandwiches.
What are the haps my friends
extraordinary claims require extraordinary shirts
February 11th, 2022:Honestly... I do think we lost something when we starting naming computers things like "Apple" and "Dell" instead of "COLOSSUS" and "MULTIVAC".
