Comments on: OOC: On the Hovering Helicopter, and Writing Future Fiction http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/ looking through the glass, darkly. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:30:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Craig Sefton http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Craig Sefton Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:40:50 +0000 http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/#comment-72 Thanks for dropping by and commenting again. Good link, I've added it in. I'd stopped by that site a couple times before, but had completely forgot about it, so thanks. The surveillance of the UK, and the accompanying laws that have helped remove more freedoms is quite amazing. I find it all the more amazing that people just willingly accept it. Ah well, a topic for another day. Thanks for the kind words though, stay in touch. Thanks for dropping by and commenting again. Good link, I’ve added it in. I’d stopped by that site a couple times before, but had completely forgot about it, so thanks.

The surveillance of the UK, and the accompanying laws that have helped remove more freedoms is quite amazing. I find it all the more amazing that people just willingly accept it. Ah well, a topic for another day. Thanks for the kind words though, stay in touch.

]]> By: joy http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-70 joy Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:56:33 +0000 http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/#comment-70 oh also just remembered one more example of the rapid and mostly unremarked growth of police powers. while strolling down baker street in london just over a month ago i happened to glance at an official notice hanging on a lamp-post. i was absolutely stunned to read that i and nearly everyone else walking down the street was potentially under an asbo. the notice declared that all non-residents of the area in groups of two or more were subject to a general purpose asbo and could be asked at any time to disperse by a police officer. Failure to disperse was an arrestable offence. a couple of lines of terse justification were also given to the effect that noisy groups of people on the street had been disturbing residents recently. i felt, to put it mildly, disturbed. oh also just remembered one more example of the rapid and mostly unremarked growth of police powers. while strolling down baker street in london just over a month ago i happened to glance at an official notice hanging on a lamp-post. i was absolutely stunned to read that i and nearly everyone else walking down the street was potentially under an asbo.
the notice declared that all non-residents of the area in groups of two or more were subject to a general purpose asbo and could be asked at any time to disperse by a police officer. Failure to disperse was an arrestable offence. a couple of lines of terse justification were also given to the effect that noisy groups of people on the street had been disturbing residents recently.
i felt, to put it mildly, disturbed.

]]> By: joy http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-69 joy Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:30:00 +0000 http://www.futurefragments.com/2007/06/01/ooc-on-the-hovering-helicopter-and-writing-future-fiction/#comment-69 haven't swung by here for a while and am glad to see you've been busy! do like your writing. your spiel about 'the future is now' rings true and reminds me of that William Gibson quote "The future has already happened, itâ??s just not very well distributed." indeed. we get those hovering helicopters quite regularly in my part of london, though until you mentioned the video camera i hadn't really put 2 and 2 together and always wondered what the hell they were up to - just vaguely assumed their purpose was intimidatory / for marketing purposes ('yes we ARE doing something to protect you, lawful abiding citizen, from crazed gun gangs' etc). you do wonder who is going to actually watch all this footage - some version of amazon's mechanical turk? also - another blog you might like for your blogroll: http://www.openthefuture.com/ cheers! haven’t swung by here for a while and am glad to see you’ve been busy! do like your writing.
your spiel about ‘the future is now’ rings true and reminds me of that William Gibson quote “The future has already happened, itâ??s just not very well distributed.”
indeed.

we get those hovering helicopters quite regularly in my part of london, though until you mentioned the video camera i hadn’t really put 2 and 2 together and always wondered what the hell they were up to – just vaguely assumed their purpose was intimidatory / for marketing purposes (‘yes we ARE doing something to protect you, lawful abiding citizen, from crazed gun gangs’ etc). you do wonder who is going to actually watch all this footage – some version of amazon’s mechanical turk?

also – another blog you might like for your blogroll: http://www.openthefuture.com/

cheers!

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