Me Myself and I
I must be a three headed monster because that is how people view me when I go back to the UK. But I am just a boring old civil servant,and I work in the most reviled of all institutions, the European Commission. Not that anyone in the UK knows what we actually do, and what we actually cost, and why we are here. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Lawson) stands up in their Parliament and admits he didn't even read page one of the most important treaty the UK signed since Potsdam, one can only suggest to the people of that once noble but now somewhat fraying at the edges country "DON'T PANIC".
Help is at hand however. That well know anthreefilupidodian-with-scots-blood-in-there-somewhere Blais has kindly agreed to shelf his ambitions for interstellar domination and run the country for yet another 5 years. Not bad considering the option - vague hague and a reformed violinist. Oh, that's another kennedy, is it? So what. Yes, go and buy some more eggs.
So why do I log in here ... apart from having the pleasure of once sharing a podium with the one member of the Adams family we have all read but getting paid considerably less for just as an enthralling speech entitled "European Competiion Policy, the APEC-Lome Banana, Yeast and Geest development as applied to photonic teleportation in an Austrian lab sometime in the next 10 years" (yes - this was in 1991 after all, and no - that was the name of my paper!), I work in Technology Foresight.
And as well know, science fiction soon becomes science fact. We just want to know which ones and when. Contributions by e-mail or by snail mail to the following:
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