Reality Bypass

March 01, 2010…. March 1, 2010

It’s March 1st 2010 already….

Amazing how time flies. Jana and I were looking at one of our completed, but in editing, works we wrote some time ago and it’s definitely interesting how it’s changed through the editing process. For one, we played around with some cross-genre futuristic elements we later decided to remove, but the amusing thing is that elements we put in 6 or 7 years ago as ‘futuristic’ are already old hat in this 2010 year. My how time flies.

It’s an interesting thought though, what science-fiction tells us about how we envision the future and the sheer speed of technology. For instance, one of the elements that was considered most far-fetched in the 1960s about Star Trek was the fact Captain Kirk could communicate to his ship on this tiny hand-held device that flips open. We’ll never have something like that! Certainly we were already at the height of the communications industry in 1960….

I, for one, am glad George Orwell was wrong although even if we remove the date the future he proposes is still compelling and frightening. Particularly when we do see resonances of it in modern America.

Alright so back to the homework and the editing, and the day job…