Living through Interesting Times

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Dave quoted:
 
> We are living in interesting times; in fact, they're so interesting
> that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF....

Cf. Hubertus Bigend's thoughts in William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" (2003):
 
"[W]e have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a
future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the 
luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration.
For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so
profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now'
to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile." (p. 57)
 
- which of course seems more or less derived from Pynchon's idea of
"temporal bandwidth" (GR, 509).
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