Thank you ma'am. Just re-read my question and goodness, grammar! :)
It seems like science fiction and fantasy are having trouble processing the possibilities that the present is opening up to us. I'm still seeing a lot of the same old things rehashed and not as much in the way of truly new things; or perhaps I'm not recognizing the new things when they crop up, or I'm looking in the wrong place for the new things. I remember the sense of wonder at Asimov and Niven and Dyson spheres and ringworlds and positronic brains. And then the Neuromancer and cyberminds. And I'm wondering - those were decades ago, where are the things like that today? The big ideas taking the steps forward from our modern technology?
It seems like science fiction and fantasy are having trouble processing the possibilities that the present is opening up to us. I'm still seeing a lot of the same old things rehashed and not as much in the way of truly new things; or perhaps I'm not recognizing the new things when they crop up, or I'm looking in the wrong place for the new things. I remember the sense of wonder at Asimov and Niven and Dyson spheres and ringworlds and positronic brains. And then the Neuromancer and cyberminds. And I'm wondering - those were decades ago, where are the things like that today? The big ideas taking the steps forward from our modern technology?