The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

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"Lime sent his unhappy astronaut, Ezentitch, to the 8th Future Academy with a scientifically thoughtful and satirical twin gift to welcome the unfortunate planet Earth. Was involved in the regional revolution.Tiki was shot and badly injured so he froze to wait for future treatment. "The most devastating computer virus dates back to your machine so far. Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spent a lot of time. What is happening in cyberspace - When helping GoMotion create a sublime pursuit of intelligent robots, electronic ants will enter the machine, and millions of pests will suddenly appear in ants and across the network as well. It caused serious damage. "

Ijon Tichy returned from Earth to Earth and found himself at the 8th World Conference held at a 106 - story hotel in Costa Rica. There, all the students protested against the Veterans Committee, the Liberation Literature Press Conference and the PhD Scholarship Association Conference. Box collector). This is a comedy setting. This is an observation by Tichy against the futuristic debate. As there are 198 bookings from 64 countries, each speaker has 4 minutes to publish his thesis. In order to speed up the process, all reports must be pre-distributed and investigated. And the instructor speaks only with numbers. ... Stan Hazelton of the American delegation soon loudly repeated: 4, 6, 11 very 22 years old; 5, 9, very 22; 3, 7, 2, 11, 22 and 22!