"We've Gone Past the Future Somehow"

"William Gibson, the cyberpunk novelist, recently tweeted the following astute observation: 'In the 1920s, the phrase "the 21st century" was already pop-ubiquitous. How often do we see the phrase "the 22nd century", now?'. And it's true—we don't have these dates anymore. As a boy, as a young man, I had mental pictures of the 21st century. But I don't have any sense of 2050 or 2100—except as a deterioration or a collapse."

Simon Reynolds at New Perspectives writes "that there is no intrinsic link between technological innovation and progressive politics."