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David Brin
Team Human
The Ministry of the Future
We fixed the things that were right in front of our eyes and scared us. We had acid rain coming out because of what came out of smoke stacks. The fish were all gone from the rivers, the Ohio River. We fixed that and now people are fishing off the warves in Pittsburgh. Wales, we had science-fictional warnings about the whales. And I'm collecting bets all over the place from the 1980s where I said, let's bet on whether or not there will be whales in the 21st century.
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