Monday, April 15, 2019

Wait A Minute...

     It's a totally unbelievable premise for a science fiction story: it's 2019, and most people buy their books, clothes and household goods from a bald billionaire with an army of robots and his own private space program?  Come on -- no one's going to find that plausible. 

     How about one where the world is polluted, overcrowded and so short on food that they're turning corpses into kibble?  And we'll set it in 2022.

5 comments:

Ratus said...

Would it be be more or less believable if you added that pictures of the bald billionaire's "vice president" were leaked during his divorce from Frau Farbissina?

Ken said...

The other billionaire has a better private space program, though...at least right now. And we haven't even got to the eccentric British billionaire's private space program....

Roberta X said...

Space programs for everybody! --Well, all the billionaires. They're the beta-testers.

Kevin Kirk said...

But will their board of directors allow them to fly?

Joseph said...

If someone a decade ago read that line about a "bald billionaire," they would think "In 2019, Steve Balmer has bought Walmart and has his own space program."