"For the past decade or so, the only critics of science fiction I pay any attention to (all three of them) have been slyly declaring that the Future is over...

"For the past decade or so, the only critics of science fiction I pay any attention to (all three of them) have been slyly declaring that the Future is over... I think they're talking about the capital-F Future, which in my lifetime has been a cult, if not a religion. People my age are products of the culture of the capital-F Future. The younger you are, the less you are a product of that. If you're 15 or so, in 2010, I suspect you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now. "The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or a radioactive post-nuclear wasteland, is gone. Ahead of us, there is merely more stuff... Upon arriving in the capital-F future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now." - William Gibson, 2010 Book Expo speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5duD15P9s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5duD15P9s