![]() ![]() ![]() When Gibson was starting to write, in the late nineteen-seventies, he watched kids playing games in video arcades and noticed how they ducked and twisted, as though they were on the other side of the screen. It proceeds, instead, from a deep engagement with the present. Gibson doesn’t have a name for his method he knows only that it isn’t about prediction. It’s not the one employed by William Gibson, the writer who, for four decades, has imagined the near future more convincingly than anyone else. This method is quite common in science fiction. A philosophical question arises: What is a family when it never ends? A story flowers where prospective trends meet. They’ve uploaded their minds to a cloud-based data bank and can now visit telepresently, forever. Telepresence, mind-uploading, an aging population: an elderly couple live far from their daughter and grandchildren one day, the pair knock on her door as robots. You could research anticipated developments in science, technology, and society and ask how they will play out. You might start by contemplating the future. Suppose you’ve been asked to write a science-fiction story. ![]()
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