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I would like to know is there anyone here who has read the book by Kim Stanley Robinsion 2312? What were your thoughts on it and do you think that kind of future is possible to live in?
Not having read the book, I'd say that for a sci-fi writer, it is easy to overestimate the celerity which which the future will approach. Even Orwell's "1984" has not yet played out, now 30 years later, and I think he'd have been closer to the mark if he had called his novel "2084". Our children still have the Orwellian world lying before them.
Every future is possible to live in, as its inhabitants will have become accustomed to it in the run-up -- it'll seem quite normal to them. It is also very risky to assume that the past decade will turn out to be a straight line and undeviating arrow pointing at the future.
Not having read the book, I'd say that for a sci-fi writer, it is easy to overestimate the celerity which which the future will approach. Even Orwell's "1984" has not yet played out, now 30 years later, and I think he'd have been closer to the mark if he had called his novel "2084". Our children still have the Orwellian world lying before them.
Every future is possible to live in, as its inhabitants will have become accustomed to it in the run-up -- it'll seem quite normal to them. It is also very risky to assume that the past decade will turn out to be a straight line and undeviating arrow pointing at the future.
An example of that is the movie Blade Runner, set in Los Angeles in the year 2019, which is only five years away. Even in 1982 when the movie was made it wasn't very credible that LA would look like that in 37 years. They should have set it in the year 2119.
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