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Left: Many facets of Amsterdam make one feel as though you've stepped back in time
run over by kamikaze bicycles. Some kind of jump had been made. I'd been left behind, an observer, a time traveller in a universe that has recently been altered by new understandings. It's been said that the traveller is the journey, but there was no time to ponder that while in transit from '72. Stepping out of my space-time portal into 21st Century Amsterdam maybe I could be excused for wondering why there were no buildings two miles high, flying cars or solar-powered trains. Some locals even greeted me with suspicion when I asked them where the nearest coffee shop was, as if I'd asked for directions to a spaceport for a flight to Mars. I was a time traveller arriving in an Amsterdam of the future that no-one back in '72 could've predicted, a future where drone strikes are normal, genetically altered crops rule, manned space exploration had been on hold for 40 years and there isn't even a Tesla energy grid to show
for it. Predictably, the rich have got richer and the poor have got more desperate. It's like everyone is part of a Medieval world fair where the royalty of the future are movie stars and multinational company directors who entertain the goodwill of the proletariat with smoke and mirrors. 'It doesn't matter,' I tell myself. Our global communications network is the motherboard of human intent and soon it will manifest itself in many positive ways. Eco-cities powered by zero-point energy and the like, but I digress. Back in '72, 'recycling' wasn't a priority and an infrastructure mimicking a global brain, or neural networking system, was still unthinkable. The space-time portal is opening again. Nostalgia and back?? O
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