So. Let's see. Friday I went out back home to an old haunt, and laughed at an old friend getting more hammered than I've seen him in ages. Saturday was spent mostly doing boring but necessary housework and then watching DVDs whilst feasting on Mexican food. Sunday I did a whole load of typing and then participated in the usual Sunday night game.
Generally though my brain's been working overtime (as usual) in several directions. I recently finished re-reading Herbert's Dune series (this time making all the way to the end of Chapter House without flagging) and I'm now working my way through Gibson's cyberpunk stuff. It's interesting to see how the works of both authors have aged.
Gibson in particular makes me chuckle - the whole stylised pop-culture thing is very 80s, and we know a hell of a lot more about both computer and genetic technologies than we did back then. Herbert in contrast is clearly the ideological hippie, and his preaching through the worm Leto is clearly a fermentation of political and philosophical ideals collated in the late 60s/early 70s. Strange how these visions of the future are such products of their times.
I guess I'm being so critical at the moment, because I want to have a stab at creating the future myself. I have bunch of ideas coalescing which will hopefully fuel novels, games and screenplays, and I guess I need to find a balance of science, sociology, politics and religion which is both realistic and different from what anyone's seen before.
What do you guys think will happen in the next 10, 20, 50, 100 years? Despite being an optimist personally, I can't help feeling that the baser side of human nature will keep overshadowing the course of history. Just take this recent s*** with Iraq for example. A utopian future such as Star Trek seems exceedingly unlikely. And the nuturing and development of more radical cultural or political groups is going to be difficult whilst the Bilderbergers of today have their fingers in every pie.
*sigh*
Hmm I'd better stop here before this becomes an unending and unrelenting monologue. Hope you guys are all cool, and maybe I'll see you Saturday?
Generally though my brain's been working overtime (as usual) in several directions. I recently finished re-reading Herbert's Dune series (this time making all the way to the end of Chapter House without flagging) and I'm now working my way through Gibson's cyberpunk stuff. It's interesting to see how the works of both authors have aged.
Gibson in particular makes me chuckle - the whole stylised pop-culture thing is very 80s, and we know a hell of a lot more about both computer and genetic technologies than we did back then. Herbert in contrast is clearly the ideological hippie, and his preaching through the worm Leto is clearly a fermentation of political and philosophical ideals collated in the late 60s/early 70s. Strange how these visions of the future are such products of their times.
I guess I'm being so critical at the moment, because I want to have a stab at creating the future myself. I have bunch of ideas coalescing which will hopefully fuel novels, games and screenplays, and I guess I need to find a balance of science, sociology, politics and religion which is both realistic and different from what anyone's seen before.
What do you guys think will happen in the next 10, 20, 50, 100 years? Despite being an optimist personally, I can't help feeling that the baser side of human nature will keep overshadowing the course of history. Just take this recent s*** with Iraq for example. A utopian future such as Star Trek seems exceedingly unlikely. And the nuturing and development of more radical cultural or political groups is going to be difficult whilst the Bilderbergers of today have their fingers in every pie.
*sigh*
Hmm I'd better stop here before this becomes an unending and unrelenting monologue. Hope you guys are all cool, and maybe I'll see you Saturday?
VIEW 14 of 14 COMMENTS
astasia:
id' like to think that the world would be better in 10, 20 30, 50 years but one can never know. maybe people will learn to pull their heads out of their asses and and realize that religeous and cultural differences dont make people bad, evil or wrong. but i dont know, all we can do i wait and watch.
ciel:
cos thats where my family live. And i am a bit of geek