It's 2038 and it's year three of the furries having an underground bootleg ring for transmitting furry art and porn between each other via LTO tapes.

#Uchronia

As much as I'm not a MS fan (typical level of miffed d/t monopolistic behaviors, not like even worse stuff pulled now) they really threw away their entire entry into smartphone space.
It never stood a chance the way they were going, but if CEO/management took mobile seroiusly, they could've seriously CRUSHED the biz/enterprise phone mkt.

Imagine if it had full/seamless integration w/AD, GPO, SCCM, WSUS, Exchange etc. But no they went full crappy Metro UI & consumer-oriented, and died. #Uchronia

#Uchronia #AlternativeHistory The term uchronia refers to a hypothetical or fictional time period of our world, in contrast to altogether-fictional lands or worlds. The concept is similar to alternate history, but uchronic times are not easily defined but are placed mainly in some distant or unspecified point before current times, and they are sometimes reminiscent of a constructed world. Some, however, use uchronia to refer to an alternate history.

The word is a #neologism from the word utopia (Greek u-topos, meaning "no-place"), replacing topos with chronos (time). It was coined by #CharlesRenouvier as the title of his 1876 novel Uchronie (L'Utopie dans l'histoire), esquisse historique apocryphe du développement de la civilisation européenne tel qu'il n'a pas été, tel qu'il aurait pu être (Uchronia (Utopia in History), an Apocryphal Sketch of the Development of European Civilization Not as It Was But as It Might Have Been).
#Books #BookCovers #BookArt #ScienceFiction #Fantasy
#SteamPunk #AnnVandermeer #PoulAnderson

#NetMassimo #ScienceFiction #scifi #uchronia My review of the novel “The Oppenheimer Alternative” by Robert J. Sawyer

https://english.netmassimo.com/2022/08/17/the-oppenheimer-alternative-by-robert-j-sawyer/