The accelerating growth of technology means science fiction will have an ever shorter shelf life.
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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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I've written a novel (well, hacked something out in a week for
#NANOWRIMO) and it's set around a tech embargo http://hexayurt.com/novel -
It's just very very hard to tell stories about The Future if The Future arrives with AI and programmable matter. It might as well be a fable
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More than once have i come up with a “brilliant future scenario” only to have it happen a week later ;-)
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Though written >100 years ago, I remember "The Machine Stops" being uncannily ahead of its time: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html …
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Not 50 years, just 23, but Permutation City still holds up! :)
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