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piperclassique · 03-11-2012, 08:43 AM

Seems to me that the interval between some aspect of our life being "maybe sometime in the future" and "this is what we do" is getting shorter. Arthur C Clarke forecast that all phone calls would become local calls and invented the geosynchronous satellite. Cory Doctorow invented whuffie, which seems awfully like this forum's Karma. For the one, fifty years from concept to reality. For the other, less than ten.
Some of the early SF seems clunky compared with right now, even. So, how long until SF is contemporaneous with our newsfeeds?

03-11-2012, 08:43 AM	#1
piperclassique A garbling groftpot Posts: 996 Karma: 9234667 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: France Device: Oasis, Voyage, Kobo mini, Samsung tablet, phones, whatever.	Is Real life catching up with SF? Seems to me that the interval between some aspect of our life being "maybe sometime in the future" and "this is what we do" is getting shorter. Arthur C Clarke forecast that all phone calls would become local calls and invented the geosynchronous satellite. Cory Doctorow invented whuffie, which seems awfully like this forum's Karma. For the one, fifty years from concept to reality. For the other, less than ten. Some of the early SF seems clunky compared with right now, even. So, how long until SF is contemporaneous with our newsfeeds?