Flash(back) Fiction: In which I predict apps in the year 2001
March 10, 2012 2 Comments
About 12 years ago, I was making out with a girl and thinking how great it was that we didn’t have to worry about file formats or operating systems or port protocols. Boys and girls were compatible, and required no conversion software to communicate. Well, “communicate.”
Even then, I was a geek.
I kept thinking about the concept of people running software and it became this story. I always meant to revise it – eliminate the hardware, maybe back off the PG-13 a little – but I lost track of the floppy disk until this weekend. It doesn’t seem nearly so futurist and prescient now, which makes me really wish I’d gotten it fixed up and published back then. I also wish I’d come up with a better title than the file name, “Warez,” suggests.
The full story, unedited, uncorrected, completely unchanged, is after the break.
