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I was thinking about the enormous changes between 1900 and 2000, social changes mostly driven or enabled by advances in technologies. Americans are used to thinking of the future as something we make here, but for a lot of the world it is an import, something coming in from outside and forcing change whether it's anticipated (or wanted) or not. Even without the spectacular bloodshed, such change is wrenching and disorienting to live through. A lot of the series examines such issues, in simplified fictional form.
...What were some of the ways you were thinking of interpreting that brief, almost throw-away line? (I wasn't actually trying to be cryptic, but I sense how it could come out that way.)
Ta, L.
I have a pretty US centric view but my thoughts were that in the current climate, people seem to be running back towards the 20th C with all its flaws etc. Rolling back of civil liberties, immigration, environment, religion, family dynamics, gender politics, economics etc. My sense is on every level except perhaps science and technology, we seem to be regressing towards some mythical time/world that never was.
I did not take your line as cryptic or think there was some sort of hidden meaning. I just wanted to understand your thoughts on the matter. For a throw away line, it's quite fascinating. Thank you for taking the time to answer. Reason #10,000 that I'm a huge fan! ;-)
If Barrayar is Vorkiverse 20thC, what Nexus planet is Vorkiverse 21st?
That's a bit sad to consider, it's the striving characters that stay, not the tech. Social chance won't be as slow, until communications are reduced.
@ Fred: Beyond the scope of this course. :-)
Although I love ALL the Vorkosiverse novels, and have reread them all multiple times, I always get a jolt when I reread Memory and Simon is all excited about a map device and a separate notetaker device. With no communication capabilities, so Miles had no idea where he was and no way to contact him.
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I was thinking about the enormous changes between 1900 and 2000, social changes mostly driven or enabled by advances in technologies. Americans are used to thinking of the future as something we make here, but for a lot of the world it is an import, something coming in from outside and forcing change whether it's anticipated (or wanted) or not. Even without the spectacular bloodshed, such change is wrenching and disorienting to live through. A lot of the series examines such issues, in simplified fictional form....What were some of the ways you were thinking of interpreting that brief, almost throw-away line? (I wasn't actually trying to be cryptic, but I sense how it could come out that way.)
Ta, L.
I have a pretty US centric view but my thoughts were that in the current climate, people seem to be running back towards the 20th C with all its flaws etc. Rolling back of civil liberties, immigration, environment, religion, family dynamics, gender politics, economics etc. My sense is on every level except perhaps science and technology, we seem to be regressing towards some mythical time/world that never was.I did not take your line as cryptic or think there was some sort of hidden meaning. I just wanted to understand your thoughts on the matter. For a throw away line, it's quite fascinating. Thank you for taking the time to answer. Reason #10,000 that I'm a huge fan! ;-)
If Barrayar is Vorkiverse 20thC, what Nexus planet is Vorkiverse 21st?
That's a bit sad to consider, it's the striving characters that stay, not the tech. Social chance won't be as slow, until communications are reduced.
@ Fred: Beyond the scope of this course. :-)
Although I love ALL the Vorkosiverse novels, and have reread them all multiple times, I always get a jolt when I reread Memory and Simon is all excited about a map device and a separate notetaker device. With no communication capabilities, so Miles had no idea where he was and no way to contact him.
Very interesting comment. I can think of a number of different ways to interpret that. What did you mean?