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"content": "<h2>The Bell Riots</h2><p>It’s August 30th, 2024 so I am contractually obligated to post about one of my favorite Star Trek time travel episodes: Deep Space Nine’s “<a href=\"http://www.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Past_Tense%2C_Part_I_%28episode%29\">Past Tense</a>“.</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" data-attachment-id=\"3840\" data-permalink=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?resize=540%2C360&ssl=1\" alt=\"A large digital wall clock in an office displays "Friday" and "8/30/24" and 15° C\" class=\"wp-image-3840\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?w=540&ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" /></figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Episode</h2><p>The referenced fictional Bell Riots happen in San Francisco in two days on September 1st. In the episode, three of the main characters travel back in time to today and witness one small aspect of what Earth was like before we got Star Trek’s brand of <a href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism\">fully automated luxury gay space communism</a>. It was very much meant to hold a mirror up to America’s class system in that certain mainstream sci-fi way.</p><p>I liked <a href=\"https://cohost.org/vectorpoem/post/7112917-the-bell-riots-happe\">this long post</a> on how naïvely optimistic the episode is, with the writers saying that tragedy of the Riots was a wake up call that motivated our democracy to solve the housing crisis. Looking at our political environment in the lead up to the 2024 Presidential election, the lip service paid to Black Lives Matter in 2020, as well as our bipartisan relative inaction with the ongoing COVID pandemic, it’s hard to imagine us collectively taking action just because some a few people shared their stories after a nudge from some time traveling Starfleet officers. That said Star Trek has always been about imagining a better future, so I think part of why I like the episode is that it seems like fixing things is possible.</p><p>As the date has approached, I’ve seen more and more references to Sanctuary Districts, especially in the context of news articles about homelessness up and down the US West Coast. Even the Chronicle is <a href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/star-trek-predicted-sf-2024-crisis-19722416.php\">covering the episode this week</a>! While I can’t speak to how unhoused folks are treated in San Francisco, I’m a little more connected to this here in Seattle.</p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seattle</h2><p>In our <a href=\"https://kcrha.org/data-overview/king-county-point-in-time-count/\">last point in time count</a>, we had the third largest unhoused population in the US: over 16,000 people, almost 10,000 of whom are living unsheltered. Some of that is driven by our generally milder weather, but despite stereotypes of people traveling from out of state the majority of people living outside are from the region. Our housing market is <a href=\"https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/seattle-wa/\">among the most expensive</a> (in part due to an influx of high paying tech jobs like mine), though it’s not the fastest growing anymore because we’ve been building some new housing.</p><p>On the surface we’re a progressive “<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/arts/in-this-house-yard-signs.html\">In This House</a>” sort of city except when it comes to how we treat unhoused folks… but when topics like <a href=\"https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/03/04/67776468/the-people-of-3rd-and-pine\">3rd and Pine</a> corridor or “what if they were camping near your home?” come up I hear among the most hateful and uncaring statements about our fellow human beings.</p><p>Of course we are trying to do some good things in the city and county like <a href=\"https://www.lihihousing.org/villages\">tiny house villages</a> and creating a <a href=\"https://www.socialhousingseattle.org/home\">social housing developer</a>, but it’s only a little and we have thousands of reasons to need more. That’s likely going to require new funding at the federal level.</p><p>We’re admittedly not doing much hands on ourselves other than trying to vote in a more progressive city council and donating to several local charities working in this space. Some of our recurring favorites include:</p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https://www.lihihousing.org/donate\">Low Income Housing Institute</a><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Operates tiny house villages as well as the <a href=\"https://www.lihihousing.org/urbanreststops\">Urban Rest Stop</a> which offers shower and laundry services</li></ul></li><li><a href=\"https://www.ballardfoodbank.org\">Ballard Food Bank</a></li></ul><p>One of the writers of the episode, <a href=\"http://www.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Robert_Hewitt_Wolfe\">Robert Hewitt Wolfe</a>, has his own SFO-focused charity <a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/writergeekrhw/760261320241217536/the-bell-riots\">suggestions</a>. Definitely worth donating this weekend if you can spare!</p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Internet</h2><p>I have one last aside about their retrofuturistic portrayal of the Internet. I got online for the first time less than a month before the episode aired, joining <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld\">eWorld</a> at 14400 baud. Their vision was mostly interactive TV with some ability to live broadcast.</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-attachment-id=\"3844\" data-permalink=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1\" alt=\"A close up of a CRT computer monitor embedded in a retrofuturistic grey console with black and red buttons. The display shows a polar view map of the world which read below in a Eurostile typeface "Transmitting Interface Data Link"\" class=\"wp-image-3844\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?w=640&ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" /></figure><p>In the episode’s plot getting the white knight tech executive to allow the District residents to share their stories to a broad audience is a pivotal moment.</p><p>It’s hard now to imagine a 2024 where the <a href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/\">vast majority of Americans</a> don’t own a smart phone capable of live streaming an event from just about anywhere. They did show a touchscreen with a stylus. Some of the interface almost reminds me of the old <a href=\"https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0?si=zyEhP3Dt4D1gP9jo\">Knowledge Navigator concept video</a>.</p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking Forward</h2><p>The future they expected for today was obviously different from what the present has yielded, and elements of the episode are now dated… but I think the core of the message remains relevant in emphasizing the need for structural change to meet everyone’s needs. Like any of my childhood favorite Trek episodes it has its issues but still has a special spot in my memory.</p><p>In the meantime, activate your Net Access, Channel 47.</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" data-attachment-id=\"3845\" data-permalink=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/img_4089-1/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?fit=1179%2C197&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1179,197\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"img_4089-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?fit=600%2C100&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C171&ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C171&ssl=1\" alt=\"A screen shot from Ivory's trends view showing a steeply increasing blue graph with the label #BellRiots and the text "Used 40 times in 7 days" \" class=\"wp-image-3845\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C171&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=600%2C100&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=300%2C50&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=768%2C128&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?w=1179&ssl=1 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" /></figure><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/bellriots/\">#BellRiots</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/charity/\">#charity</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/deep-space-nine/\">#deepSpaceNine</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/ds9/\">#ds9</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/eworld/\">#eworld</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/homelessness/\">#homelessness</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/internet/\">#internet</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/retrocomputing/\">#retrocomputing</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/san-francisco/\">#sanFrancisco</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/seattle/\">#seattle</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/star-trek/\">#starTrek</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/time-travel/\">#timeTravel</a></p>",
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"en": "<h2>The Bell Riots</h2><p>It’s August 30th, 2024 so I am contractually obligated to post about one of my favorite Star Trek time travel episodes: Deep Space Nine’s “<a href=\"http://www.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Past_Tense%2C_Part_I_%28episode%29\">Past Tense</a>“.</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" data-attachment-id=\"3840\" data-permalink=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?fit=540%2C360&ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?resize=540%2C360&ssl=1\" alt=\"A large digital wall clock in an office displays "Friday" and "8/30/24" and 15° C\" class=\"wp-image-3840\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?w=540&ssl=1 540w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8e16be11-8bae-4500-97ae-88fef9283b64-50891-00001abecd2d15a8_file.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" /></figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Episode</h2><p>The referenced fictional Bell Riots happen in San Francisco in two days on September 1st. In the episode, three of the main characters travel back in time to today and witness one small aspect of what Earth was like before we got Star Trek’s brand of <a href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism\">fully automated luxury gay space communism</a>. It was very much meant to hold a mirror up to America’s class system in that certain mainstream sci-fi way.</p><p>I liked <a href=\"https://cohost.org/vectorpoem/post/7112917-the-bell-riots-happe\">this long post</a> on how naïvely optimistic the episode is, with the writers saying that tragedy of the Riots was a wake up call that motivated our democracy to solve the housing crisis. Looking at our political environment in the lead up to the 2024 Presidential election, the lip service paid to Black Lives Matter in 2020, as well as our bipartisan relative inaction with the ongoing COVID pandemic, it’s hard to imagine us collectively taking action just because some a few people shared their stories after a nudge from some time traveling Starfleet officers. That said Star Trek has always been about imagining a better future, so I think part of why I like the episode is that it seems like fixing things is possible.</p><p>As the date has approached, I’ve seen more and more references to Sanctuary Districts, especially in the context of news articles about homelessness up and down the US West Coast. Even the Chronicle is <a href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/star-trek-predicted-sf-2024-crisis-19722416.php\">covering the episode this week</a>! While I can’t speak to how unhoused folks are treated in San Francisco, I’m a little more connected to this here in Seattle.</p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seattle</h2><p>In our <a href=\"https://kcrha.org/data-overview/king-county-point-in-time-count/\">last point in time count</a>, we had the third largest unhoused population in the US: over 16,000 people, almost 10,000 of whom are living unsheltered. Some of that is driven by our generally milder weather, but despite stereotypes of people traveling from out of state the majority of people living outside are from the region. Our housing market is <a href=\"https://www.apartments.com/rent-market-trends/seattle-wa/\">among the most expensive</a> (in part due to an influx of high paying tech jobs like mine), though it’s not the fastest growing anymore because we’ve been building some new housing.</p><p>On the surface we’re a progressive “<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/arts/in-this-house-yard-signs.html\">In This House</a>” sort of city except when it comes to how we treat unhoused folks… but when topics like <a href=\"https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/03/04/67776468/the-people-of-3rd-and-pine\">3rd and Pine</a> corridor or “what if they were camping near your home?” come up I hear among the most hateful and uncaring statements about our fellow human beings.</p><p>Of course we are trying to do some good things in the city and county like <a href=\"https://www.lihihousing.org/villages\">tiny house villages</a> and creating a <a href=\"https://www.socialhousingseattle.org/home\">social housing developer</a>, but it’s only a little and we have thousands of reasons to need more. That’s likely going to require new funding at the federal level.</p><p>We’re admittedly not doing much hands on ourselves other than trying to vote in a more progressive city council and donating to several local charities working in this space. Some of our recurring favorites include:</p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https://www.lihihousing.org/donate\">Low Income Housing Institute</a><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Operates tiny house villages as well as the <a href=\"https://www.lihihousing.org/urbanreststops\">Urban Rest Stop</a> which offers shower and laundry services</li></ul></li><li><a href=\"https://www.ballardfoodbank.org\">Ballard Food Bank</a></li></ul><p>One of the writers of the episode, <a href=\"http://www.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Robert_Hewitt_Wolfe\">Robert Hewitt Wolfe</a>, has his own SFO-focused charity <a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/writergeekrhw/760261320241217536/the-bell-riots\">suggestions</a>. Definitely worth donating this weekend if you can spare!</p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Internet</h2><p>I have one last aside about their retrofuturistic portrayal of the Internet. I got online for the first time less than a month before the episode aired, joining <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld\">eWorld</a> at 14400 baud. Their vision was mostly interactive TV with some ability to live broadcast.</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-attachment-id=\"3844\" data-permalink=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1\" alt=\"A close up of a CRT computer monitor embedded in a retrofuturistic grey console with black and red buttons. The display shows a polar view map of the world which read below in a Eurostile typeface "Transmitting Interface Data Link"\" class=\"wp-image-3844\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1ad14293-4dcd-4973-a66d-9083ff17a2a5-50891-00001ae9d286950b_file.jpg?w=640&ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" /></figure><p>In the episode’s plot getting the white knight tech executive to allow the District residents to share their stories to a broad audience is a pivotal moment.</p><p>It’s hard now to imagine a 2024 where the <a href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/\">vast majority of Americans</a> don’t own a smart phone capable of live streaming an event from just about anywhere. They did show a touchscreen with a stylus. Some of the interface almost reminds me of the old <a href=\"https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0?si=zyEhP3Dt4D1gP9jo\">Knowledge Navigator concept video</a>.</p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking Forward</h2><p>The future they expected for today was obviously different from what the present has yielded, and elements of the episode are now dated… but I think the core of the message remains relevant in emphasizing the need for structural change to meet everyone’s needs. Like any of my childhood favorite Trek episodes it has its issues but still has a special spot in my memory.</p><p>In the meantime, activate your Net Access, Channel 47.</p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" data-attachment-id=\"3845\" data-permalink=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/img_4089-1/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?fit=1179%2C197&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1179,197\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"img_4089-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?fit=600%2C100&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C171&ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C171&ssl=1\" alt=\"A screen shot from Ivory's trends view showing a steeply increasing blue graph with the label #BellRiots and the text "Used 40 times in 7 days" \" class=\"wp-image-3845\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C171&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=600%2C100&ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=300%2C50&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?resize=768%2C128&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/blog.ultranurd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img_4089-1.jpg?w=1179&ssl=1 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" /></figure><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/bellriots/\">#BellRiots</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/charity/\">#charity</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/deep-space-nine/\">#deepSpaceNine</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/ds9/\">#ds9</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/eworld/\">#eworld</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/homelessness/\">#homelessness</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/internet/\">#internet</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/retrocomputing/\">#retrocomputing</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/san-francisco/\">#sanFrancisco</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/seattle/\">#seattle</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/star-trek/\">#starTrek</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://blog.ultranurd.net/tag/time-travel/\">#timeTravel</a></p>"
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