How to Proceed When a Technology is Not Mature

I made a deliberate choice this year not to do holiday strips and to keep the comics coming at a normal pace through the holidays. I feel like between holiday themed comics, reruns, and weeks off, the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is sort of thin for the comic strip fan. New Year’s has come and gone, so I’m taking next week off. See you on the January 20th! Here’s hoping 2025 is a good bit less interesting than it looks like it may be.

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How to Share the Benefits of Your Wisdom

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How to Express Your Positive Vision for the Future of Humanity

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How to Warn the People About Horrifying Future Events

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How to Brace Yourself for the Coming Future

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How to Steer a Conversation Back to the Topic

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Here’s an example.

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How to Get Someone Up to Speed

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How to Prepare for the Future

The Star Trek episode referenced here is, of course, “Spock’s Brain”, where aliens steal . . . wait for it . . . Spock’s brain. They use it as the processor for the computer that controls their entire society. I love that episode. It’s terrible. There’s so much to mock in it, including the single line of Star Trek dialog that Missy and I quote most often.

“Brain and brain! What is brain?!”

My favorite thing is that until they can find Spock’s brain, McCoy rigs up a doohickey so he can drive Spock’s brainless body around like a remote-controlled car. You know Bones had some fun with that before he showed anyone else, making Spock do the Hokey Pokey and that sort of thing. Or maybe he just forced Spock’s body to say, “You are right, doctor,” over and over again.

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How to Express Admiration

Not to mention the subterranean city hidden beneath the Magic Kingdom.

I once had two middle-aged men walk up to me while I was working in one of the parks and ask me to solve an argument for them. One of the men said that he had heard there was an extensive tunnel system under the Magic Kingdom.

The other guy said, “No, there isn’t.”

I said, “There is.”

The first guy said, “I told you.”

The second guy said, “No, there isn’t.”

I said, “I’ve been in it, more than once.”

The second guy said, “You’re lying.”

I don’t have a lot of faith left in mankind’s ability to settle our differences.

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