as a kid i was so convinced, near the end of 90s i thought “maybe there are huge advancements made but they’re saving it for the year 2000 so it’ll be bombastic like people have expected.”
The night is 2000. I am walking around central london with my dad and his friends, drinking champagne from a bottle despite being underage. We are not near the place we are meant to be to see the fireworks display. The sky fills with coloured lights as giant fireworks are being let off and illuminating the entire heavens with one artificial colour at a time.
as a kid i was so convinced, near the end of 90s i thought “maybe there are huge advancements made but they’re saving it for the year 2000 so it’ll be bombastic like people have expected.”
instead we got fucking segway lol
If there is anything about the 90s that I always found fun is just how everyone and everything anticipated the year 2000.
The night is 2000. I am walking around central london with my dad and his friends, drinking champagne from a bottle despite being underage. We are not near the place we are meant to be to see the fireworks display. The sky fills with coloured lights as giant fireworks are being let off and illuminating the entire heavens with one artificial colour at a time.
this reads like the beginning of neuromancer
high praise, thank you.
I might have to steal it for a novel.
Spoilers, it all starts going to shit in November when the Supreme Court selects Bush as president along party lines.
Kindly do not remind me of that…
I would love to live in a world where every Hummer H2 was replaced by a Segway.