I'd agree, except that this feeling isn't new to us now. People seem to have felt much the same as far back as the 1700s (at least), if not the whole of history.
I think angst about the pace of change is ancient. I think angst about the multidimensionality of change is relatively modern, or at least foregrounded by modern thinking. You (and Graham) are, I think, right that in a sense it starts with Neuromancer, but I'm not sure how much of a book like Counting Heads is extrapolating from sf and how much is extrapolating from the real world. (I suspect it's both.)
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Date: 2006-03-07 12:03 pm (UTC)I think angst about the pace of change is ancient. I think angst about the multidimensionality of change is relatively modern, or at least foregrounded by modern thinking. You (and Graham) are, I think, right that in a sense it starts with Neuromancer, but I'm not sure how much of a book like Counting Heads is extrapolating from sf and how much is extrapolating from the real world. (I suspect it's both.)