From IM, names deleted to protect the irrelevant:
|Abi||I’ve identified [S]’s third sock on [D]|
|Patrick||In the future, we will speak very strange sentences!|
|Abi||Where the heck is my jetpack?|
|Patrick||I’m going to write a story set after the Singularity, a million years hence, when we are all intergalactically-empowered immortal sentiences in the Beyond, and people will STILL BE COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING SODDING JETPACKS.|
|Abi||Now, a sodding jetpack is an accessory too far, in my book|
Though it would simplify the mounting and improve the marketability in some quarters
|Abi||Besides, jetpacks are impossible.|
Because we will have jetpacks in the future, right?
|Abi||But by the time the future comes it isn’t the future, it’s the present.|
Thus no jetpack.