Bobko
15 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]
Well... in Dune - you have the House Harkonnen - led by a Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
In Star Trek you had Chekhov - Kirk's trusty navigator.
Obviously - these authors were projecting their then present day reality of the Cold War into the distant future. But still, even those authors thought that even ten thousand years from now - there would still be traces of who was Russian, who was English, and so on. This... due to the extraordinary impact of our specific age across the past 200,000 years.
It gives me a little comfort, that when we may be colonizing Alpha Centauri's satellites, there will still be Grzegorzes and Borises.
The future will be stranger than we can imagine.
Well... in Dune - you have the House Harkonnen - led by a Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
In Star Trek you had Chekhov - Kirk's trusty navigator.
Obviously - these authors were projecting their then present day reality of the Cold War into the distant future. But still, even those authors thought that even ten thousand years from now - there would still be traces of who was Russian, who was English, and so on. This... due to the extraordinary impact of our specific age across the past 200,000 years.
It gives me a little comfort, that when we may be colonizing Alpha Centauri's satellites, there will still be Grzegorzes and Borises.
