Late
21st-Century Slang for a
book.
Yes, in the
future "books" will be
rare and expensive;
electronic media will take over our
free time and our
schools; "brain food" becomes
strictly an
eccentric hobby. Nobody will
write for books anymore; but
Classics and
some best-sellers, if the make enough money, will be ported over to
paper for those
crazy brain-food collectors and sold at
specialty stores for a
hundred bucks a pop. Since
libraries aren't
useful anymore (their
information store is too
static), the
cities will use the
opportunity to sell the
books for
outrageous prices and repair some of the
monetary damage done by having a
stupid library in the
first place.
Oh, and
all books that are sold these days are
sold with
plain blue covers only, due to the
uncertain and
uncensored nature of their content. I mean, what if I
picked up a brain-food from, say, the
nineties? It might still say things like
"hispanic", "libido" or even "
charity"! Can you
imagine a
child seeing that?!
(
dictated to me by a very
drunk-looking
Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.)