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Does anyone else feel like they are living in a pretty hilarious future realm when they see there's something called "Emacs 24" in the world?

In 2150, will we be using "Emacs 395"?

Maybe I should get my old vt100 out of the closet and see if it still works.

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In 2150, roughly 139 years from now, assuming a major release every 2 years, we should be on emacs 93 or therabouts.

As long as we still use text entry for programming, we'll still be using emacs.... it will keep up with the times.

What if we use text entry...but not from our fingers?

Then we won't need to remap caps-lock anymore.

Emacs 395 would be much nicer than Visual Studio 2150 or an Eclipse named after a small asteroid that hasn't been discovered yet (because, by then, all rounded-body names will have been used)

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