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Robert Sheckley's "Minute to the Future" is a witty science fiction story about a man who travels into the future and discovers not a wise civilization, but a world completely dominated by television, ratings, and entertainment corporations. Richard Mevins becomes the first passenger in Professor Carpenter's time machine. He hopes to see what humanity will be like in five hundred years: whether science has triumphed, whether wars have disappeared, whether people have reached the stars, whether they have learned to live more intelligently. But the future greets him very differently. As soon as Mevins emerges from the capsule, representatives of competing broadcasters begin arguing over who will be the first to broadcast the "man from the past." In this world, truth, progress, and politics are not the most important thing. Viewer attention is the most important thing. Game shows have become the center of civilization, corporations write the laws, and the prizes become increasingly absurd: houses, lands, positions, territories, and titles. It's classic Sheckley: funny, fast, inventive—and yet deeply unsettling. A story about a future that's frightening precisely because it's so similar to the present. ___________________________ 💛 SUPPORT MY PROJECTS: 🤝 On Patreon (PayPal, Visa, Mastercard):   / alexbalsh   💳 By card number (Russian Federation): 5469550077221486 Alexander Svyatoslavovich 🟢 Directly through SBER: https://messenger.online.sberbank.ru/... 🪙 USDT TRC20: TYYi1zs4hCxjQAydEZaCDN3JcusddYbNJa ₿ BTC: bc1qzz0v2h5f773euc9n9eervht3rquth42tmr6em2 🎁 Also on Telegram via Tribute (Visa, Mastercard, World): https://t.me/tribute/app?startapp=ep_... 💸❤️ Super thanks on YouTube (the dollar sign in the heart button under the video) 🎙 ORDER A VOICE: https://balsh.ru/p/diktor/ OTHER CHANNELS: ▶️YOUTUBE "THINKING WITH BOLSHSHALSKY":    / @bolsheshalskiy_think   ▶️YOUTUBE "A BOOK IN THE EAR" - FANTASTIC:    / @kniga_v_uhe   ▶️YOUTUBE "JUST. HISTORY" - HISTORICAL PODCASTS:    • ЯПОНИЯ × ПОРТУГАЛИЯ: 16 век. #1 Восхождени...   __ CLOSED TELEGRAM CHANNEL: https://t.me/chitalnya5/3729 ___________________________ #VoicesOfTheFuture #audiobook #science fiction #bolsheshal'skiy #scifi #scifipodcast #russianaudiobook