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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