I think part of the angst about writing near-future sf at the moment comes from the feeling that everything is changing all at once, and it's too much for anyone to capture in a book.
Yeah. See Clute's review of Pattern Recognition, in particular the quote he starts the piece with. (As you know, I have fairly extensive disagreement with Clute on this - of which my paper in Polder is just a fragment.)
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Date: 2006-03-07 10:34 am (UTC)Yeah. See Clute's review of Pattern Recognition, in particular the quote he starts the piece with. (As you know, I have fairly extensive disagreement with Clute on this - of which my paper in Polder is just a fragment.)