William Gibson speaks to this in film No Maps to These Territories, when he says that he realized his job was getting almost impossible after finding out Michael Jackson was marrying Elvis's daughter.. Current events are getting so ridiculous coming up with startling visions of the future is getting harder and harder. It's probably going to take younger minds more grounded in the tangents of our acceleration curve to provide these projections.
Here's one that tries (seriously high nerd warning): http://tinyurl.com/2umbo The Confusion came out last week and The System of the World is coming out in September. Check out this too hehe: http://tinyurl.com/3yank w3rd /. kc /. www.bzor.com /. www.wddg.com --------------------- William Gibson argues that science fiction has become extremely difficult to write now largely because the current society accelerates so quickly that it becomes very very difficult to project. Anyone read BURNING CHROME lately? A lot of that stuff is now science FACT, right? What is Neal Stephenson of SNOW CRASH fame working on right now? His latest magnum opus is the Baroque Cycle, comprised of QUICKSILVER, THE CONFUSION, and another work whose title escapes me. The subject? Among other things, how the enlightenment changed civilization. I still consider it science fiction, but there's not a bit of future stuff in it. I think techno is trying to move forward by moving backward in the same way. peace lks
