Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 19, 2024

Flame him!

Dear pen pal from the ’50s, please educate yourself and check your facts before you spout an ignorant opinion, and make an even bigger fool of yourself. (Random misspellings, and grammatical errors throughout.)

If the pen pal had access to ENIAC, he could’ve started Facebook 50 years before Zuckerberg.

Eh too bad pen pal from the 50s, you was has to entirely depends on lies of mainstream media.

Actually social media is an incredible benefit. People are now beginning to see their rulers for what they are. Of course, people on the Left are reluctant to shed their dependence on the plantation masters and grow up into adults that embrace self determination, but they, too, will soon see how little regard their owners have for them.

There was an Agatha Christie novel from the 1930s. A sassy English lass is at an international young people’s conference and someone says the meeting will hopefully let people understand each other better. The English lass says that if people really understood each other there’d be more wars, not fewer.

What is your second guess? That’s a great response!

If I could time travel, I would go to the past. I’d look like a prophet with Sports betting…… and the stock mark knowing which companies to invest in. I’d be really uncomfortable knowing some of the tragedies that would be upcoming, though. I’m sure if I notified the authorities of a couple of significant events, I’d be ignored until they came true. Then I’d have more attention than I’d ever dreamed of and completely lose any autonomy that I so highly cherish.

It’s not the Information Age, it’s the Disinformation Age.

What happened to the information superhighway? Well it got obstructed with paywalls, hate speech, and lots and lots of lies.

In 1955, you had large mainframe computers. This was after Eniac. Then you had AOL chat rooms and USENET newsgroups, which were just as bad as today’s social media.

It looks good on paper…

People from the past are so yesterday.

Same joke as last year, March 17th. But it’s a good joke.

I understand that others do not understand.

(And we knew that even before social media came out.)

Writing with a pen requires thinking about what you are going to say. Even using an old typewriter imposed a delay for thought. Somehow hunting and pecking on a portable device can be done without any thought whatsoever … and then you hit Send.

Dear Pen Pal, what’s a pen?

I rather like this arc’s concept: being able to interact with people in other eras without the in-person risks.

Like all grand visions, social media’s was destroyed once the lowest common denominator discovered how to use it. Idealism will never last in the long run. And is frequently sabotaged at the beginning.

I heard that argument way back in the 70s – by enabling everyone to communicate online we would not be subject to misinformation by politicians, military leaders and and business leaders.