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.
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?
ReplyDeleteThe 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....
ReplyDeleteSpace programs for everybody! --Well, all the billionaires. They're the beta-testers.
ReplyDeleteBut will their board of directors allow them to fly?
ReplyDeleteIf 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."
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