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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Reed Johnson / The Bulletin
March 7, 2010
DAVIS, Calif. — In science fiction, there’s dystopia and there’s utopia.
There are the dark wizards of apocalypse, terrifying us with visions of humanity’s grim comeuppance. And the starry-eyed fantasists, insisting how much better the future will be than the messy, middling present.
And then....