The Future and Other Ideas

I'm slogging my way through the introductory sections of "The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF", edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (1994). I'll be getting back to their outlook on culture, science, and humanity later.

Meanwhile, I've been reminded of how much "The Future" (capital letters and all) is part of science fiction. And how views of "the future" are so much a part of western culture. I put together a link page for another blog (Apathetic Lemming of the North, "The Future: Just Like Today, Only Different "), to help me keep track of micro-reviews - and the occasional rant - about up-and-coming technologies, and what "The Future" looked like, back in the day.

In this blog, I see I've done a few posts about "The Future" - at least one of them rambling even by my standards. As a convenience for myself, and you, if you're interested, I'm starting a list of posts that are mostly on this topic:

• "The Future: Just Like Today, Only Different"
  Apathetic Lemming of the North (October 24, 2009)
• "Nanotech and Keeping Up"
  (October 3, 2009)
• "Food, Agriculture, Technology, and City Folks"
  (October 2, 2009)
• "'Kids These Days' - Rambling on About Human Nature"
  (September 10, 2009)
• "Inventions: Strange; Feared; and Yet-to-Come"
  (August 25, 2009)
• "Four Millennia of Human Nature: I Think Qoheleth is Right"
  (August 3, 2009)
• " 'The Future, Far as Human Eye Could See' - Hollerith Cards and Anachronisms"
  (August 2, 2009)
• ""...Into the Future..." - Excerpt; Attitude; Comment and Theme"
  (July 3, 2009)
• "- - - 'And We're All Gonna Die!' "
  (June 30, 2009)
• "Predicting the Future: a Look at a Will Be that Was"
  (June 26, 2009)
• "Getting Details Right: The Vast, Huge, and Very Large City Of The Future"
  (June 25, 2009)

I'll probably get more selective about what posts I add to this list, as time goes on.