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->'''Captain Janeway'''(discussing Paris' Captain Proton holodeck adventures): This is how you've been spending your free time?
->'''Tom Paris''': Well, I've been studying how past generations viewed the future.
->'''Captain Janeway''': And?
->'''Tom Paris''': Well, it didn't work out quite as black and white as they imagined.

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->'''Captain Janeway'''(discussing Paris' the Captain Proton holodeck adventures): This is how you've been spending your free time?
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time?\\
'''Tom
Paris''': Well, I've been studying how past generations viewed the future.
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'''Captain
Janeway''': And?
->'''Tom
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'''Tom
Paris''': Well, it didn't work out quite as black and white as they imagined.
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-->--'''Yogi Berra''', '''Music/MeatLoaf''', and others

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-->--'''Yogi -->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''Music/MeatLoaf''', and others



-->--''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' on the ''StarWarsHolidaySpecial''

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-->--''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' -->-- ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' on the ''StarWarsHolidaySpecial''
''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''



-->--'''James Lileks''', [[http://lileks.com/institute/interiors/BHG/chpt2/9.html Interior Desecrators]]

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-->--'''James -->-- '''James Lileks''', [[http://lileks.com/institute/interiors/BHG/chpt2/9.html Interior Desecrators]]



-->--'''Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins''', ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/GW/ Gods Willing II: We'll Always Have Boston]]''

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-->--'''Ben -->-- '''Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins''', ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/GW/ Gods Willing II: We'll Always Have Boston]]''



-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

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-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman'''
-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''



-->--'''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of Creator/{{IBM}} [attributed], 1943

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-->--'''Thomas -->-- '''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of Creator/{{IBM}} [attributed], 1943



-->--'''Spongetron''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129

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-->--'''Spongetron''', -->-- '''Spongetron''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129



-->--'''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)

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-->--'''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', -->-- '''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)



-->--'''[[Creator/MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''

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-->--'''[[Creator/MissManners -->-- '''[[Creator/MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''



-->--'''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''

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-->--'''Creator/GKChesterton''', -->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''



-->--'''John Borstlap''', ''The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century''

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-->--'''John -->-- '''John Borstlap''', ''The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century''



-->--''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''

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-->--''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', -->-- ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''



-->--'''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "Robots (The Humans are Dead)"

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-->--'''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', -->-- '''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "Robots (The Humans are Dead)"



-->--'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review

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-->--'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', -->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review



-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [[CouchGag title caption]], "Forty Percent Leadbelly"

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-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' -->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [[CouchGag title caption]], "Forty Percent Leadbelly"



-->--'''John Prine''', "Living In the Future"

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-->--'''John -->-- '''John Prine''', "Living In the Future"



-->--'''StarTrekVoyager''': "The Bride of Chaotica"

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-->--'''StarTrekVoyager''': -->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "The Bride of Chaotica"Chaotica"
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->'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.

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->'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and the, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.
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->'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and the old, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.

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->'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and the old, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.
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->'''Mike:''' [[Film/ANewHope With the blast shield down]], I can't see anything.

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->'''Mike:''' [[Film/ANewHope With the blast shield down]], down, I can't see anything. anything.]]
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->'''Mike:''' Diahann Carroll sings something.
->'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and the old, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.
->'''Mike:''' In the virtual reality helmet, which is basically a 1960's hair dryer.
->'''Rich:''' With a blast shield.
->'''Mike:''' [[Film/ANewHope With the blast shield down]], I can't see anything.
->'''Rich:''' How am I supposed to jerk off?
-->--''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' on the ''StarWarsHolidaySpecial''
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-->--'''[[MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''

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-->--'''[[MissManners -->--'''[[Creator/MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''
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->'''Captain Janeway'''(discussing Paris' Captain Proton holodeck adventures): This is how you've been spending your free time?
->'''Tom Paris''': Well, I've been studying how past generations viewed the future.
->'''Captain Janeway''': And?
->'''Tom Paris''': Well, it didn't work out quite as black and white as they imagined.
-->--'''StarTrekVoyager''': "The Bride of Chaotica"
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-->--John Prine, ''Living In the Future''

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-->--John Prine, ''Living -->--'''John Prine''', "Living In the Future''
Future"
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->''"We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know
-> I read it in the paper fifteen years ago
-> We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds
-> Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines"''
-->--JohnPrine, ''Living In the Future''

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->''"We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know
know''
-> I ''I read it in the paper fifteen years ago
ago''
-> We're ''We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds
minds''
-> Wearing ''Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines"''
-->--JohnPrine, -->--John Prine, ''Living In the Future''
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->''"We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know
-> I read it in the paper fifteen years ago
-> We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds
-> Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines"''
-->--JohnPrine, ''Living In the Future''

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-->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''Music/MeatLoaf''', and others

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-->-- '''Yogi -->--'''Yogi Berra''', '''Music/MeatLoaf''', and others



-->-- '''James Lileks''', [[http://lileks.com/institute/interiors/BHG/chpt2/9.html Interior Desecrators]]

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-->-- '''James -->--'''James Lileks''', [[http://lileks.com/institute/interiors/BHG/chpt2/9.html Interior Desecrators]]



-->-- '''Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins''', ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/GW/ Gods Willing II: We'll Always Have Boston]]''

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-->-- '''Ben -->--'''Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins''', ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/GW/ Gods Willing II: We'll Always Have Boston]]''



-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

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-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''
-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman'''



-->-- '''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of Creator/{{IBM}} [attributed], 1943

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-->-- '''Thomas -->--'''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of Creator/{{IBM}} [attributed], 1943



-->-- '''Spongetron''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129

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-->-- '''Spongetron''', -->--'''Spongetron''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129



-->-- '''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)

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-->-- '''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', -->--'''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)



-->-- '''[[MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''

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-->-- '''[[MissManners -->--'''[[MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''



-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''

-> '''Cpt. Webb:''' Log entry: March 16th, 1980...

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-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''', -->--'''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''

-> '''Cpt.->''"The irony is that last century’s modernism cannot turn into a thing of the past without losing its identity, because it wanted so desperately to embody the future. Like the glass and steel cubes of modernist buildings, it cannot afford to become old, to become the past, because that is totally undermining its ''raison d’être''. When the future becomes the past, the one cancels out the other and the result is emptiness."''
-->--'''John Borstlap''', ''The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century''

->'''Cpt.
Webb:''' Log entry: March 16th, 1980...



-->-- ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''

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-->-- ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', -->--''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''



-->--''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'', "Robots (The Humans are Dead)"

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-->--''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'', -->--'''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "Robots (The Humans are Dead)"



-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review.

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-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', -->--'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review.
review



-->-- '''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''' [[CouchGag title caption]], ''Forty Percent Leadbelly''

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-->-- '''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''' -->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [[CouchGag title caption]], ''Forty "Forty Percent Leadbelly''
Leadbelly"


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->''You will BE AMAZED by the INCREDIBLE FUTURE OF 2009 with its jetpacks, flying cars, domed cities, alien monsters and vast electronic superbrains! Where rocketships TRAVEL TO THE STARS and alluring robot girls cater to YOUR EVERY DESIRE! You will GASP AT INCONCEIVABLE MARVELS like mobile telephones, interstate highways, automatic sliding doors, artificial satellites, and weapons of mass destruction!''
-->-- Blurb for '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''
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->''"Any Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental"''
-->-- '''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''' [[CouchGag title caption]], ''Forty Percent Leadbelly''
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-->-- '''[[MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]]''Film/Superman'''''

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-->-- '''[[MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]]''Film/Superman'''''
reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''
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-->-- '''[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html Judith Martin]]'''

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-->-- '''[[http://www.'''[[MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html Judith Martin]]'''
reviewing]]''Film/Superman'''''
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-->-- ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''

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-->-- ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''
''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''
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-->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''MeatLoaf''', and others

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-->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''MeatLoaf''', '''Music/MeatLoaf''', and others



-->-- '''NeilGaiman'''

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-->-- '''NeilGaiman'''
'''Creator/NeilGaiman'''



-->-- '''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of IBM [attributed], 1943

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-->-- '''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of IBM Creator/{{IBM}} [attributed], 1943



-->-- '''Spongetron''', ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129

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-->-- '''Spongetron''', ''SpongebobSquarepants'' ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129



-->-- '''ArthurCClarke''', ''Childhood's End'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)

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-->-- '''ArthurCClarke''', ''Childhood's End'' '''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)



-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''

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-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''



-->-- '''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review.

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-->-- '''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review.review.
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->''"[[ClusterFBomb What the hell is all this shit?]] There's metallic sea sponges everywhere, there's titanium rocket jockstraps, headless parrots with bottle caps, floating eyeballs entrapped in glass lids! How is this all happening!? Oh, of course! It's the year 2010!"''
-->-- '''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review.
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->''"It would be any old boring rumpus room, really, but that lamp just says Tomorrow! And nothing says 'yesterday' like something that said 'tomorrow!'"''

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->''"It would be any old boring rumpus room, really, but that lamp just says Tomorrow! And nothing ->''"Nothing says 'yesterday' like something that said 'tomorrow!'"''
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-->--''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'', "The Humans Are Dead (Robots)"

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-->--''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'', "The "Robots (The Humans Are Dead (Robots)"are Dead)"
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->"It is the distant future... the Year 2000."
-->--''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'', "The Humans Are Dead (Robots)"
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-->-- '''GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''

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-->-- '''GKChesterton''', '''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''



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-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan0FromOuterSpace''

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-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan0FromOuterSpace''''Plan9FromOuterSpace''
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-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}, ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''

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-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}, ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''''{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Plan0FromOuterSpace''
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->'''Bill:''' It's the future of the past!
-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}, ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''
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-> '''Cpt. Webb:''' Log entry: March 16th, 1980...
->'''Crow:''' Oh, our old future.
-->-- ''[[MST3K Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "The Phantom Planet"
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->It would be any old boring rumpus room, really, but that lamp just says Tomorrow! And nothing says "yesterday" like something that said "tomorrow!"

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->It ->''"It would be any old boring rumpus room, really, but that lamp just says Tomorrow! And nothing says "yesterday" 'yesterday' like something that said "tomorrow!"'tomorrow!'"''



->That's me; both hands on the keyboard, one foot in the Swing Age. If I could afford it, I'd drive a car with tail fins.

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->That's ->''"That's me; both hands on the keyboard, one foot in the Swing Age. If I could afford it, I'd drive a car with tail fins."''



->You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

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->You ->''"You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future."''



->I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

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->I ->''"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."''



->''Everything'' is chrome in the future!

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->''Everything'' ->''"''Everything'' is chrome in the future!future!"''



->"No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges--absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the ''average'' viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more."

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->"No ->''"No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges--absorbing sponges -- absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the ''average'' viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more.""''



->"Comic books and space films share the concept that the future will look like the Bauhaus gone berserk, all straight lines and no color"

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->"Comic ->''"Comic books and space films share the concept that the future will look like the Bauhaus gone berserk, all straight lines and no color"color"''



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->The future ain't what it used to be.
-->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''MeatLoaf''' and others.
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->''"The future ain't what it used to be."''
-->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''MeatLoaf''', and others

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