Google the future

[resonant]

A conservative, hawkish, and suspiciously clean-cut young man won the primary here for Republican candidate for Congress. Today as I was dreamily staring out the window, I saw a yard sign with his name on it, and I thought: "I should Google him to find out when he'll be propositioning a male undercover cop in a public restroom."

Like, for that split second, it seriously seemed completely plausible to me that it ought to be possible to Google for things that haven't happened yet.

I mean, think of the repercussions! If I GoogleFuture a book that hasn't been written yet and pass off parts of it as my own, is that plagiarism? If I GoogleFuture things I actually wrote (only not yet), could I find out what fandom I'll be in ten years from now?

If I GoogleFuture myself and find my obituary, would I be better off looking at the date or not?

Comments

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You scared me with that last sentence.

Politician / undercover cop! Woohey!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Except that the politicians are all people I don't want to see get sexual satisfaction and/or find love!

Though -- wouldn't it be funny if some politician were caught in naked hijinks with an undercover cop, and instead of saying, "I didn't do it -- I thought he was a woman -- I was afraid he'd beat me up," he said, "Yes, but we're in love"?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

But it needn't be about love! It can be powerfucking or I'm so stressed I need a shag-shagging or omg I'm humilated publicly and will lose the election (and thus ensueth a blackmail conspiracy fic) or, um.