Not quite an idea
Mar. 23rd, 2005 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollPeople do for fun what they used to have to do from necessity. Example: cross-country hikes or wilderness camping.
What are we forced to do now that will be seen as amusing hobbies a hundred and fifty years from now?
The Society for Historical Employment, in which hobbyists move into cubicals and observe sharply defined social structures, while dosing themselves in turn with stimulants like coffee and nicotine and downers like alcohol? In which all communicaton must be verbal, on paper or at most a few terabytes of email?
What are we forced to do now that will be seen as amusing hobbies a hundred and fifty years from now?
The Society for Historical Employment, in which hobbyists move into cubicals and observe sharply defined social structures, while dosing themselves in turn with stimulants like coffee and nicotine and downers like alcohol? In which all communicaton must be verbal, on paper or at most a few terabytes of email?
