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No. 949: The future is a foreign country, too

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The future is a foreign country, too

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=949

Strip by: SuperNerd

{Delkin emerges from a sleeping pod. A wall-mounted display shows TIME ELAPSED to be 2307 years, 11 months, 2 days and 9 hours.}
Delkin: Oh my goodness, I've been in cryostasis for 2,000 years! The future is mine to behold!
{Delkin opens the doors of his residence to find two people speaking in an unknown language.}
Delkin: ...that's gonna be a problem.

The author writes:

If you don't think this is plausible, think about what people would be speaking in your local area 2,000 years ago, especially if you, like most of the Anglophone world, live in a settler-colonial state.