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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTOM TOMORROW: The Future - It's UBER-IFFIC!
DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/24/1346577/-Cartoon-The-future-it-s-UBER-IFFIC
MORE ON UBER'S 'RIDES OF GLORY' LIST: http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2014/11/sex_the_single_girl_and_ubers.html
MORE ON UBER EXEC SUGGESTING SMEARING OF JOURNALIST: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists
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TOM TOMORROW: The Future - It's UBER-IFFIC! (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Nov 2014
OP
Privacy was voluntarily surrendered by folks in exchange for instant communication ability few folks
Fred Sanders
Nov 2014
#4
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)1. Good comic
He's right, as usual. Privacy has been surrendered by most of us in the name of convenience.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. Love the Flying 57 Chevy two-tone color schema.
What could go wrong, indeed.
Dan de Lyons
(52 posts)3. Nice catch
The memories...
Octafish
(55,745 posts)8. Witness...One does not see those colors anywhere else in nature...
...or the mind's eye, unless one was there.
Thank you for grokking, Dan de Lyons!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. Privacy was voluntarily surrendered by folks in exchange for instant communication ability few folks
actually need...fair trade?
I remember when the future promised flights to Mars and jet packs for everyone....what we got instead was Facebook.
So stop whining about lack of "privacy" and a "police state", you unanimously agreed to all that with the Patriot Act and worship of technology as amusement..
LiberalArkie
(15,708 posts)5. Might have had it with Eisenhowers and Trumans tax rates
heaven05
(18,124 posts)6. but, but
the marketing whizzes said we wanted, even needed "instant communication" to "make our lives easier" and more bearable. It was a lie???? Oh noooooo!!!!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)9. Kicked and recommended!
Thank you, Hissyspit.
Tom Tomorrow really nailed it this time.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)10. k&r