Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:26:21 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternative reality v SF
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> drewbitt at yahoo.com 4/28/2005 7:48:31 PM >>>
>What I think is great is that the future *has*
>arrived, but it isn't in any way how we thought it
>would look.

Science fiction as a predictor of the future has a fairly poor track
record.  I think what it has been successful at doing is saying "There
is a future and it will be different.  Hold onto your hats, it's going
to be a wild ride."

mjw