I watched the first episode of that arc last week (and the next next week, due to scheduling issues with my watching group).
I was struck by how incredibly plausible it was (here in 2012) that this could happen by 2024. Do I think that things will continue to get worse, economically, for 12 more years? No, not really. But we already have the Occupy camps -- I mean, Sanctuaries, it's just that they're being resisted by the authorities rather than institutionalized, so far. But things being resisted by the government and then institutionalized is what often happens with things like that. It's one of the few ST things that looks more plausible closer to the time than it did when it was written, in my opinion.
Surely the writers worked on some sort of network at their office.
In 1994? I would expect that at least some of them were writing on typewriters.
I was struck by how incredibly plausible it was (here in 2012) that this could happen by 2024. Do I think that things will continue to get worse, economically, for 12 more years? No, not really. But we already have the Occupy camps -- I mean, Sanctuaries, it's just that they're being resisted by the authorities rather than institutionalized, so far. But things being resisted by the government and then institutionalized is what often happens with things like that. It's one of the few ST things that looks more plausible closer to the time than it did when it was written, in my opinion.
Surely the writers worked on some sort of network at their office.
In 1994? I would expect that at least some of them were writing on typewriters.