It seems almost ridiculous to point this out... but even renting "Baby" was a big deal back then. Watching what you wanted, when you wanted, was an absurd idea!
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Ian M Banks' Culture novels show an optimistic view of the future, where civilisations can overcome the scarcity era and blossom into era of leisure and altruism. Okay, so there's often quite a bit of fatalism in there and it doesn't avoid conflict, but for the average Culture citizen the future is rosey.
The original Star Trek series.
There may be some military brinksmanship lurking distantly behind this (Proof to Pakistan and China that their boosters are accurate enough for example.) but aside from that, this is a good thing. The more robot space missions there are, the faster our science will advance.
For a man who probably would have hated having his ideas reduced to a pithy quote, he sure had a lot of simple but powerful ones! I think my favorite of all is, unsurprisingly also from Cat's Cradle:
Countries build their own spacecraft so that they can build their own spacecraft. They do it for domestic purposes, including economic and technological development. I don't understand why that is considered a bad thing.
Hmm... Perhaps the personality, but Kurt's brother, Bernard, was also very much a part of this. Bernard invented cloud seeding for rain and Kurt talks about this a lot in the forward to the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_V…
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I saw Jacob's Ladder on cable when I was twelve or so. Freaked me the HELL out, but I was glued to the tv the whole time.
No kidding. Take that, Oprah!
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Hey guys. Guys! What if the international space station was actually my cat? It's impossible but the view would be spectacular. You should do an article about it.