I read in one book the author explained a pop culture reference and rationalized it by saying "my present is your future and I have no way of knowing what time you might be reading this in." I thought it was clever and a real meta way of thinking. Our decendents might be reading our literature hundreds if not thousands of years in the future and not have any idea what it was referencing.
That seems like a joke Pratchett would tell. And he’s still have a point, since I as an american already miss half his references. And I was alive during some of the years he was alive.
I didn’t know that. i remember that Douglas Adams was an early adopter of computers, and had a website long before most people. I hope they were friends for the time we had both of them.
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u/5WattBulb 1d ago
I read in one book the author explained a pop culture reference and rationalized it by saying "my present is your future and I have no way of knowing what time you might be reading this in." I thought it was clever and a real meta way of thinking. Our decendents might be reading our literature hundreds if not thousands of years in the future and not have any idea what it was referencing.