Volume XI
Issue 10
October 2008
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The Futures Are Now
While the mainstream media may be content with staying on top of the
news, an exclusive technological breakthrough engineered by the Globe-Guardian research
and development department allows this publication to go the big boys one better.
Globe-Guardian FutureNews™ brings you the major stories not after they happen, not as they happen, but before they happen. This astounding development is made possible by Globe-Guardian staff perfection of Projection Enhanced Expeditionary Kinetic Image News Gathering (PEEKING™). The new technology enables Globe-Guardian reporters to transport their virtual selves into currently available futures to obtain news story information.
The physical bodies of our staff remain safely within the suite of PEEKING™ cubicles installed in a high-security wing of the Globe-Guardian central offices. Reporters' "virtual bodies," however, travel to future press conferences and sites of major breaking news stories.
Virtual visitors are undetectable to inhabitants of future destinations. Our reporters are able to obtain all information publicly available to their future counterparts as well as have opportunity to eavesdrop on behind-the-scenes conversations which might more accurately reflect actual event circumstances.
Readers must bear in mind, however, that the Iron Law of Time Travel applies here. In simple terms, the law states that any current time line represents only one possible future. Any change in that time line will result in an alternative future proportional to the scope of the change.
That means that each Globe-Guardian story reporting a future news event holds potential for redirecting the current time line. The best guesses of our research and development staff indicates that time lines shift only to the extent that stories are read and believed.
Effects, therefore, are projected to be minimal. Both of the Globe-Guardian's readers understand that they are not to take action in response to a FutureNews™ story.
The temporal travel limits of PEEKING™ technology are theoretically limitless. Most sessions examine the near future, but they may range outward as necessary. Hardware and software details will, by necessity, remain closely-guarded Globe-Guardian trade secrets.