These futuristic hazard signs had me laughing out loud. What is interesting about each of these future hazards is that each one exists as a theoretical harmful side-effect of nascent technologies. What I would love to see is science fiction books get these labels on the inside dust covers. That would be a cool plot synopsis device. Let's try this on Michael Crichton's Prey.
This story is about nanomachines that go out of control and change their programming, so the accompanying hazard signs would be:
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As you can see, the effective set-up of the plot can be figured out just by reading the signs. Some authors might think that the signs give too much of the plot away, so maybe they can decide with their publishers how many signs to put on the book.
Of course, the sign that would make me panic the most would be:
(h/t to Instapundit)
Hilarious. I saw that earlier, and instantly thought of "Prey".
ReplyDeleteDude:
ReplyDeleteThe ones that made me laugh out loud were the chaos with the butterfly and the dangerous groupthink. You could pretty much slap any political rally with hazardous groupthink these days.