The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!
From William Gibson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing.
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