When you go back and read old SF, it's never about the future which you are living in when you are reading it. They never get it right. But I am sensitive to some areas from which change is emerging. I think that's pretty much the best we can do these days, because change is both exponential and in some weird, either new or newly revealed way, out of control . That's why conspiracy theories are so popular.
Conspiracy theories are big because they're comforting.
Any conspiracy is infinitely less multiplex than the real deal, which is sort of multiplex to the point of being unknowable. Understanding otaku-hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the web. We are all curators, in the post-modern world, whether we want to be or not. This William Gibson WebRing site is owned by Atomjack .