We planted a seed and 50 years later, it's still growing. Earlier that year, Hugo Gernsback was forced out of science-fiction publishing. What was going on in our thinking then might best be expressed in the words of Fred Pohl. Gernsback prophet, dreamer with peccadilloes unnoticed or tolerated inspired us young men. He still does today, whether we admit it or not, with every convention.
Science fiction is commonplace.
It's no longer the preserve of the elite. Gernsback would have been pleased. And Gernsback would also have been, perhaps, even more displeased. I'm terribly sorry about that. Science Fiction once had an enormous romantic charm that's something mighty hard to find in the genre these days.