Hell I saw fridges with Android screens and I’m like hell naw. I did get a smart one so I can get notifications if the kid leaves the door open and so I can track power consumption over time without sticking a kill-a-watt in a really tough spot. But the Android systems they put in fridges feel obsolete on the showroom floor. Absolutely embarrassing, and probably completely useless after about 4 or 5 years when Android stops supporting the SoC and when you stop getting root certificate updates and start getting SSL errors on every page and app.
One of my favorite time travel versions in SF is that of Connie Willis: When you try to travel back in time, if you would have changed the timeline by any noticeable amount, you either (a) just don’t go–the machine doesn’t work–or (b) you go, but the timeline adjusts by like dropping you in Siberia 20,000 BCE or the center of the Pacific or something. Either way, the timeline is what it is, and you can go observe, if you’re very careful not to change anything. Your time travel is part of the timeline, and obviously it didn’t change anything significant because here we are…
The entire plan would be a comedy of errors if people weren’t killed. Or an action thriller. Or both actually.
A couple of naive youngsters dreaming of political freedom swayed by a manipulative schemer to kill a guy who wasn’t really responsible for anything.
Plan failing completely because nobody in the group was even close to competent, until a driver took the wrong turn.
I wrote about it my sci fi fiction novel. It was a whole messy errors that lead to the assassination. I had hell of fun writing how a man going back in an attempt to stop it.
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