IP: famous futurist sends "Greetings from the future" :-)

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

 >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:01:54 +0900
 >To:  <<suppressed>>
 >From: Ted Nelson <ted@xanadu.net>
 >Subject: Greetings from the future
 >
 >Hi.
 >
 >You've been wondering what would happen in the future.  Through
 > advanced technosophy and frabbadabble you wouldn't understand,
 > I am sending you this message from New Year's Eve, 2001-2.
 >
 >Things are very different from what we expected-- in some ways
 > better, in other ways, well, it's very hard to explain because as
 > you read this you have no idea about the big issues right around
 > the corner-- the NQW scare, the Squank Force, and most important,
 > what to do about the queeblies.  And how Bill Gates keeps changing
 > the standards for spare body parts.  You can't imagine what's going
 > to happen when the tan hits the fish.
 >
 >I didn't mean to get into that.  What you really need to know, and
 > this is going to be vital if we're ever going to see each other again,
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