"This was the dream of the future everyone had, once." In a 2014 interview[1], William Gibson said: "It hasn't ever really been a monolithic thing. The gleam

"This was the dream of the future everyone had, once." In a 2014 interview[1], William Gibson said: "It hasn't ever really been a monolithic thing. The gleaming kitchens and the monorail and the flying cars, and all of that, in the 1950's coexisted with a strain of left-leaning American sociopolitically aware prose science fiction, which was being published in contrast to its political opposite -- the political opposite was called Astounding Stories and the liberal scifi magazine was called Galaxy, and the writers.. there was a little bit of crossover and they would drink together when they went to science fiction conventions but otherwise they didn't have much to do with one another." "If you look at the stories that were being published in Galaxy, they were quite dystopian and grittier and more naturalistic, and to my mind altogether more intelligent, but that's sort of a matter of taste, so it's never all one scenario, though we tend to remember it that way." [1] - at around 18 minutes in to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4