On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Umberto Rossi wrote: > A recent article in a Swedish daily on the failure of science > fiction writers to offer a prediction on the creation of Internet > and mobile phones, made me contemplate the abilities of Ernst > Juenger in the field.
This would be an extremely difficult position to defend, considering that many terms, such as, for example, "cyberspace," a term frequently utilized to describe the space we're now communicating in, was coined by the science fiction writer William Gibson in his famous novel NEUROMANCER back in 1984. Although I'd have to think to come up with the authors and titles, I also know that the concepts of global computer networks and mobile communications devices go back AT LEAST to the SF of the 1950s. It sounds to me like some reporter didn't do his/her homework. Perhaps only Swedish science fiction was being referred to...a subject I know nothing about. But it certainly could not be said of science fiction as a whole. John Morgan "'One can't always be high.' Oh no? One The University of Michigan only has to properly orient oneself." [email protected] --Walter Benjamin http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbmorgan/ including The Colin Wilson Page
