Are Friends Electric

[Desdichado]

OK, so the last few weeks I've been really busy at work and unable to really check on the boards much. Also, at home we've been really busy, and my wife has been doing some major projects on the computer. After that was over, our computer started acting a bit dodgy -- I think we'll have to do a system restore because Windows has become corrupted.

Then, this morning on the way into work, I heard the old Gary Numan/Tubeway Army song "Are Friends Electric" and was struck by one of the lines of lyrics (which I'm paraphrasing, 'coz I'm not sure I got it exactly right) "And so I ask, are friends electric? Only mine's broke down and now I have no one to love."

Weird, how an almost 25 year old song from an obscure branch of music called futurism (encompasing few artists, for that matter -- John Foxx, Gary Numan and some early Human League are about the only ones that come to mind) about a cold, robotic future would hit so close to home.

I remember someone saying on these boards a few months ago that cyberpunk wasn't really intrigueing as a sci-fi genre anymore because for all intents and purposes it's dystopian "predictions" have actually come true.

Scary to think of Gary Numan as a prophet. :\

 

[diaglo]

it's electric. boogey woogey woogey

 

[Desdichado]

Ah, well, maybe the song's too obscure. And it's not really true that I have no one to love if I can't connect to the Internet, but the parallel's were kinda striking and did make me think. What can I say, I'm a morning commute philosopher.

 

[Zappo]

Well, I think my close friends are biological, but on the other hand, I'm fairly sure that Crothian is a post-bot.