On Dec 20, 2:25 am, ghost <gh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Somewhere we lost the ability to want what's fantastic and replaced it
> with what's "real" - and Hard Science can only go so far.
Well yes, but my tortured analogy is how when cyberpunk was new
everyone "new" what the future was going to be. (We were wrong, but
dammit at least every one was in agreement, there was consensus.)
Now, no one dares ponder past the next week, and even that is iffy.
We are so deep inside the future shock that we can't even wrap our
brains around the present. (As I understand it part of the reason
Gibson set Spook Country in 2006, was to try and get his bearings on
the present.)
On the whole "real" stuff, and the devaluation of the escapist,
writing what we know is possible isn't going to inspire a generation
to go into science and engineering like escapism inspired the people
that built the present.
Charleson Mambo
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