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Seeing the future

2007-12-12 19:06:04.583578+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

QOTD, user iknownuttin on /.:

"Sci-fi novelist William Gibson has given up trying to predict the future -- because he says it's become far too difficult.

I find it impossible. I guess that's why I can't get a job:

Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

Me: "If I knew what was happening in 5 years, I'd be a billionaire and NOT interviewing for some dipshit wage slave job! And maybe, if I actually knew, I'd be committing suicide for my dismal future of: commuting at least an hour in traffic one way each day, having to put up asinine reviews that are geared to make me fail, watching CEOs who get fired leave with tens of millions of dollars in severance while, the rest of us watch our jobs go overseas,and ... oh fuck it!"

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