Science fiction has been unable to update its 1980s visions of the future

Evidence

Look at science fiction: I think already in the Eighties there was a crisis of the genre, but anyway, the last great science-fiction movies are from that time. Today, we’re still locked into Blade Runner, dystopian cities, or even William Gibson’s cyberpunk… I would say that The Matrix itself, with its vision of a fully simulated society, couldn’t update this vision. Perhaps Minority Report, with its pop-up corporate advertisings, captures the reality of capitalist cyberspace even better than William Gibson: today cyberspace is like those continuous pop-up windows that constantly appear as advertising, commanding us to do something, in which we are not fully immersed in; it’s more like a background noise from everyday life. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2306

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The insight that contemporary cyberspace is background-noise advertising rather than immersive virtual space could seed speculative fiction about a world built on interstitial interruptions.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodern fragmentation prevents picturing a radically different future at all — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 364; Postmodern science fiction implodes inward to revitalize fragments of simulation — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 406; The concept of the future itself has mutated across the twentieth century

Broader Connections

• Postmodern fragmentation prevents picturing a radically different future at all #expands (0.82) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 364
• The concept of the future itself has mutated across the twentieth century #qualifies (0.78)
• Postmodern science fiction implodes inward to revitalize fragments of simulation #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 406