ThinkGeek is now selling the 2001 Monolith action figure, in the correct 1:4:9 proportions. “May cause strange magnetic fields, action figure evolution, seeing things filled with stars, and/or more (or it might just sit on your desk doing nothing).”

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/monolith-action-figure.shtml

Guess when this was written:

 Webbed in a continental data-net that year by year draws tighter as more and still more information is fed to it, most people are apathetic, frightened, resigned to what ultimately will be a total abolition of individual privacy. A whole new reason has been invented for paranoia: it is beyond doubt – whoever you are! – that someone, somewhere, knows something about you that you wanted kept a secret…and you stand no chance of learning what it is.”

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