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Nice, it reads like one of the handful of people who understood archeo-futurism was both elements, not just LARPing as medievalism.

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Yikes! Mom or Dad don't read actual books to the kids?!?! With life so pleasant and so local, surely they've got time to do *that*!

I'm not averse to technology. I love my darling little laptop dearly, and as a woman in the maybe not-so-golden maturity of life, I have actually thought a little longingly about how nice it would be to have a commonly-affordable thoughtfully-designed robot cat.

But real turn-the-paper-pages books must be part of any future design, or we are lost. Cuddling with my baby, sometimes after midnight when I finally got to bed as a mom who worked outside the home, and reading "Goodnight Moon" with the baby finding mousie on the page was worth every bleary moment. Please write that into the script.

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My main project is selling kid's books, so it can't be too salesy ;)

Kidding aside, I totally agree. I was trying to work in an angle on how technology might change entertainment in ways that were more local and more responsive to parent's preferences - not just more effective at propagandizing. Even when Mom & Dad are tired from socializing (which included the kids).

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Movie night's fine. I credit TV from my own earliest years as keeping me somewhat sane in a household I'd've loved to have escaped from.

But I promise you--it's when Mom and Dad are bone-tired but grab themselves by the scruffs of their own necks and hie themselves to the bedside of the bath-fragrant pajama-wearing kids and read the book anyway--it's not in that moment but in everyone's memories three decades later that the value is fully redeemed.

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This outlines my day more or less. I've been working in my home office since the 2020 follies. I have to go to big box stores to get my hinges for my 'bots, and I'm not using automation to that degree because I enjoy the actual work of growing the plants that I consume. Chickens are a must!

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Oct 19Liked by Nelson R. Elliott

Being anti "commun..." ism, ity, ist, etc. I am encouraged by "...stake in the system. Some people will use their technologically-enabled leisure time to build strong civic organizations - churches, charities, clubs, schools, governments, and militias.

These organizations will create strong local constituencies."

Be well.

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Your teacher neighbor with the exoskeleton is from Gaza originally.

imma diggin still.

Flew down the scroll (as I indicated, still chewing on the text 8^ ) because I just arrived here on a lark from Barsoom.

That is more than most people I deal with on Minds can comprehend. ;^}>

"Bottleshigiri" is similar to tameshigiri, w/ obvious substitutions & more fun!

_Cherish is the new love, be well._

*May God nod to ward thee & thine!*

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I have a similar vision but more gritty, more violent, so more realistic.

& t's naive to be putting so much emphasis on the "techno"; we should be creating gardens of bio-technology, any future freedom for man, will have to be based around freedom for nature; it will have to be another state of nature, a neo-"techno"-primevalism.

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