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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000201
Author:LOKI
If Aldous Huxley were writing Brave New World today, we wondered what he would foretell for the next hundred years? Mood gases will be available for all occasions, a penal colony will be established on Mars and all dreams will be videoed and analysed, says Mike Gifford. Charlotte Girard thinks we will only use e-comms and lose the power of speech. Marianne Jamieson reckons handwriting will go, too: we will just read and type. Clair Hubble predicts all human languages fall into disuse and synthetic languages like Ptydepe, as in Vaclav Have's play The Memorandum, will take over.
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