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by Joe
I’m a little ticked off at these tools I’m learning to use to get my words out to all of you. If you
have read my work, you’ll know its pretty eclectic. It
can range from enjoying a free meal to Hyper Science.
Think of Cloning, Genetic Engineering, Cybernetics, Nano-
molecular electronics-medical technologies, Cryobiology
Life Extension and Artificial Intelligence. Considering each of
these individually, it is already staggering to think of what they can do. Now mesh, combine them: That’s Hyper Tech,or Hypertechnology. The truth is, these and other sciences I dare not mention are rapidly merging.
The frustrating part is getting this on-screen, learning new software only to find glitches in this program that erases or hides
my work. Any other writers having similar problems?
In the old days, literally a hundred or a thousand years ago, we wrote
on paper where mistakes in sentence, words, and grammar errors made us tear up the paper and try again. Most of us learned, got better, made fewer mistakes. With the PC, its so much easier to scribble thoughts, but we can lose everything with an accidental press of the delete key.
Today’s Monday, February 12, 2001. My other work is on ‘Harvesting The Dead,” about a doctor taking already dead childrens' organs without
their parents' permission. I found out about this story through Reuters News Service and reporter Kate Kelland on Tuesday in London Jan. 30, 2001.
I found out that some French researchers really believe America had a clone in 2000. Possible, probable, who knows? Do I think it's possible... Damn Straight! It' also very possible that it's a smoke screen the French may be using to hide their own clone. Just a thought.
This is my “I don’t know what I’m doin' column.” Here we are in future, and the PC chews up all my work, making me do it over and over.
I should’ve stuck with my old Underwood or Royal typewriter. In fact, if
people are throwing them out, I still want one and maybe a long continuous roll of clean meatpacking paper so if a stream of Consciousness moods hits
I’ll be able to do a ‘Jack Kerourac.’ Wait a sec, my PC is the electronic equivalent! But I still would like to switch to the old style when I can.
The Future. Yeah, right. A few flying cars, the only hovercrafts are overgrown tugboats, BART is the closest thing to teleportation and it has trouble every time it rains. No vacations in space yet, and no jetpack.
But we have Craig Computers, the Human Genome is mapped, and life extension to possible immortality is no longer a joke. We have Cloning, Stemcell research and an international Space Station.
“Star Trek Voager” is about to end. “Star Trek
Wanderers" presents Will Wheaten traveling the starlanes without a spaceship. That hybrid Q girl and Q’s son and the evolved Kess, together or separately, are saving the universe, dimensions, timelines and each other at times.
Speaking of timelines, Star Trek’s Ships of the line “Tempest and an advanced “Enterprise,” a new Timeship that has a proud legacy to live.
I know, "He’s gone loopy again!" I say update some old, embrace the old.
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