"Not to belabor the point -- the story, which purports to be set in 2511, is actually set in roughly 1985, i think. And why did this not bother me while I was reading it, only to make me angry on the bicycle, later? Because I grew up reading SF stories written before 1985. I grew up reading rediscovered-lost-colony-FTL stories in which the protagonists got lost in the woods, and it was fun. It didn't occur to me then that they would have GPS cell phones. It was easy, this morning, to simply forget the world of today, and read as if I was in 1985. But on some level this is morally bankrupt. When you don't know something, you are innocent of it. Once you do know it, though, all that is possible is feigned innocence, or incoherence."

"The Tao Te Ching for kids"