In any case we live, indisputably, in a
science-fiction world. All around us we see evidences of a new order:
life is not what it was for our fathers and mothers, and certainly
not what it was for their fathers and mothers. Life moves faster, and
we move with it or are left behind. We ride the back of galloping
technology, and we cannot dismount without breaking our necks. We –
at least most of us – watch pictures in our living rooms that move
and speak. We travel in roaring vehicles that reach speeds of more
than one hundred miles an hour across transcontinental systems of
broad paved roads – or in machines that fly through the air at
speeds that approach the speed of sound. We live in houses where
climate is automatically controlled and work in buildings that scrape
the sky. We – at least a few of us – have at our fingertips the
power to destroy another nation, or the world. We – or at least a
handful of us – have walked on the moon.
James Gunn - Alternate Worlds
No comments:
Post a Comment