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Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38

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Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Is that just a complicated way of saying blue?

No, it's black/white/grey and cloudy. Maybe you're thinking of modern televisions that cut out to a solid color screen, usually blue by default?

Agreed, the static was back in the good old CRT days:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+static&tbm=isch

Re: Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Is that just a complicated way of saying blue?

No, it's black/white/grey and cloudy. Maybe you're thinking of modern televisions that cut out to a solid color screen, usually blue by default?

jgramhamc is referencing a William Gibson line from a cyberpunk book. The line is dated because kids think an untuned TV channel is blue. Old people[1] like us recognise the metaphor[2] for what it is. Other perhaps anacronistic bits in the book include people in cabs getting faxes sent to the cab which are printed on cheap paper.

(Although I prefer to think that this is a description of an alternate future, not our own future extrapolated, which neatly does away with worries about fax paper).

This comment is a long way of saying ThatsTheJoke.png

[1] sorry jgrahamc!

[2] or analogy.

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