Anderson's book did not strike me as a revelation because he didn't say anything new about society, technology or human beings. Over generations humans moved from one technology to another gaining something and inevitably loosing some other stuff in the process. And in any society at any century there were people who were leaving with the "feed" in their brain and people who were independent thinkers. This phenomenon has much to do with psychology and not that much with technological innovation. Our future can be much brighter than we can dream if or much darker than Anderson's picture.
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I like what you say about our future can be much "brighter or darker". How come there are not that many books written about how great the future will be? They are usually twisted or forboding!
Irene, I agree that Anderson's prediction probably won't turn out exactly the way he wrote it, but I do think these kinds of science fiction stories are valuable because they remind us what we could lose or what we are already beginning to lose.
Cheri, you're right too. Science fiction stories like these always tell us how terrible things will become. When we're certainly not striving for that, why is it almost always the case in sci fi novels?
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