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Relevant William Gibson commentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11502715 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11502715 "In the 1960s I think that in
by mortenjorck 13y ago
Relevant William Gibson commentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11502715 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11502715
"In the 1960s I think that in some sense the present was
actually about three or four years long," he said, "because
in three or four years relatively little would change… The
present is really of no width whatever."
Our sci-fi present is making sci-fi harder to write.
- jes5199 13y agoexcept that this article was written in 2010 (three years ago!), and not much has actually changed since then.
- raldi 13y agoExcept the tablet revolution, massive leaps forward in translation and speech recognition, an electric vehicle being named Car of the Year, multiple states passing self-driving car legislation, featherweight wearable computers that project an image directly onto your retina, a private company successfully docking a spaceship with the ISS, discovery of the Higgs Boson, large-scale entanglement in a quantum computer, a man jumping from a balloon at the edge of space while millions of people watch live over the Internet, an SUV landed on Mars via a sky crane, a computer crushing the world's best Jeopardy players, wireless video calls via a pocket computer...