Re: Charles Stross Says You Can No Longer Write Near-Future Science Fiction
Dan Goodman
> On Sep 30, 2:30 pm, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
> <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
> > Patient Zero 2.0.....Canada is America's hat... wrote:
> >
> > >
http://io9.com/5056682/charles-stross-says-you-can-no-longer-write-ne...
> >
> > Yeah, I saw people saying the same thing 20 years ago. It
> > wasn't true then, it isn't true now. SF was never about predicting.
> > It was always about telling cool stories.
>
> cool stories that reflect current society and issues.
> -Campbell
Which doesn't work all that well if society undergoes enough change
before the story is published.
And which issues are considered important changes (though almost always
lagging behind figuring out what issues _are_ important.)
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Jack May
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> VALIS wrote:
>
>> On Sep 30, 2:30 pm, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
>> <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>> > Patient Zero 2.0.....Canada is America's hat... wrote:
>> >
>> > >
> http://io9.com/5056682/charles-stross-says-you-can-no-longer-write-ne...
>> >
>> > Yeah, I saw people saying the same thing 20 years ago. It
>> > wasn't true then, it isn't true now. SF was never about predicting.
>> > It was always about telling cool stories.
>>
>> cool stories that reflect current society and issues.
>> -Campbell
>
> Which doesn't work all that well if society undergoes enough change
> before the story is published.
>
> And which issues are considered important changes (though almost always
> lagging behind figuring out what issues _are_ important.)
>
now have, figuring what the world will be like in even in a few decades can
be extremely difficult.
Juho Julkunen
jack...@comcast.net says...
> > And which issues are considered important changes (though almost always
> > lagging behind figuring out what issues _are_ important.)
> >
> When you have exponential increase in technology advances in society, as we
> now have, figuring what the world will be like in even in a few decades can
> be extremely difficult.
Have we, though?
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Juho Julkunen
Matthias Warkus
No. In several areas, it's more or less "plus ça change, plus c'est la
même chose", while in others, things are moving faster than most people
can follow them; and the boundaries between those areas keep changing.
Someone from the 1960s would probably be amazed by the fact that there
is not only no long-distance maglev line in the whole world and that
supersonic civil aviation has never progressed beyond a small niche. On
the other hand, they might be equally astounded about the progress in
other areas - and not necessarily only in microelectronics and
telecommunications, which is the canonical example. Logistics and
production, for example, has advanced in leaps and bounds with
containerisation, just-in-time, kanban, kaizen and whatnot, all of which
can be implemented in really low-tech ways.
mawa
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jerry warner
Matthias Warkus wrote:
and the same morons keep destroying everything!
only geniuses will survive and only some of them,
the way things are going. There arent enough welfare
resources on Earth to keep the rest going. That spells
conflict.
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> mawa
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