Neuromancer is as relevant today as when it was published bc Gibson made the social consequences of tech more interesting than the tec.
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Can you think of any scifi over 50 years old that hasn't been made implausible by technological change since it was written?
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1984 was first published in 1949, and it’s take on techno fascism resonates as well today as back then.
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I tried rereading a bit. It survives pretty well, but only because of a trick: because it's dystopian, obsolete tech seems plausible.
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Agree. Still think sci fi’s ability to point to future political/economic discourses is more important than descriptions of new tech
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I don't mean that tech is all scifi can be about, but that even scifi that's not about it can still be tripped up by it.
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These days all actual sci-fi is post-singularity. Mundane stuff like direct neural interface is now just techno-thrillers: Bond's jetpack.
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Great science fiction is much more about people than technology and keeps better, longer.
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That's a wise choice, but even if you don't focus on tech it's hard to write about the future without leaving yourself vulnerable to it.
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I agree with Josh here...great SciFi focuses on characters, and it's easy to imagine many alternate tech futures (veer into steam punk, etc)
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Disagree. Good SF isn't purely about the tech. The classics from early 20th century still hold up.
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Rather, all fiction is now historical fiction or science fiction. The present is even more reduced than the future.
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Agree. The average age of my most favorite SF books goes up the more SF I read.
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do u buy into that whole Kurzweilian Singularity scenario / timeline?
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Technology growth lengthens, not shortens a shelf life of science fiction, ‘cause it puts more layers of fiction on science’s expiry dates.
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