the future is now, then and again

[foxtongue]

From sclerotic_rings,

"Fifty years ago tomorrow, with the launch and subsequent success of Explorer 1, the US officially set off the space race. With it came the discovery of what are now known as the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth, marking the first real scientific discovery of the interplanetary US/Russian competition. Now, maybe, we'll see advertisers stop using "Space Age" as a synonym for "futuristic" and maybe see its use as a synonym for "fondly nostalgic of paths not taken"."

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[natowelch.livejournal.com]

In other news centuries and "ages" are now fifty years.

the central question of the new century (or at least the first fifty years) or "age":

Who's "we"?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stranger_here/]

It's sort of alt-history, like steampunk only with bigger thrusters.

[michel-lacombe.livejournal.com]

This weeks' ECONOMIST has space tourism among the cover blurbs. Age not yet over, clearly.