Predictive texting can be very useful and very troublesome.
Tonight I randomly picked up some Talking Heads tracks and realised how David Byrne was 'predictive texting' almost forty years ago. Listen to these two songs (lyrics attached for non native English speakers). For me they capture more than anything else what is happening in the world today.
Life in wartime. Lyrics here
And Listening Wind (unfortunately no video copy easily accessible).
In former times David would have been called a prophet or a seer.
I do just really hope that there is a brighter future than that which a few militant fanatics (and a migrant crisis of an unparalleled scale since WW2) really pose a threat to: closing down Schengen and the 'common Europe' plan (Yes I'm one of the few Brits who subscribe wholeheartedly to that project). It feels like there is an awful lot at stake at the moment.
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