Visionary is a retrospective label. It's also pop-culture meaningless. You can't, in the present, be "visionary". That's just silly (unless you're from the futu

Visionary is a retrospective label. It's also pop-culture meaningless. You can't, in the present, be "visionary". That's just silly (unless you're from the future). I was only last week listening to Cory Doctorow interviewing William Gibson, and the GreatDismal was mocking himself being labelled "visionary". Hindsight is, well, hindsight in retrospect.