THE MAN WITH THE FUTURE INSIDE HIM

摘要

Posted everywhere on street corners, the idiot irresponsibles twitter supersonic approval, repeating slogans, giggling, dancing..." So it goes in William Burroughs's novel The Soft Machine (1961). Did he predict social media? If so, he joins a large and mostly deplorable crowd of lucky guessers. Did you know that in Robert Heinlein's 1948 story Space Cadet, he invented microwave food? Do you care?