Literature of the Future: scenarios & styles

low tech; actual reality

rough, intimate, messy, hungry, warm, real

Characteristics:

Repeated shifts from tech & progress to organic & nostalgia

(Cyberpunk, esp. Gibson, sometimes goes this way--recall love for Rikki before implants, loathing of Chrome for tech-polish)

example: food over foodpills

appeals:

human family

humanity triumphs over bureaucracy, technology