Alvin Toffler warned us about Future Shock, but is this Future Fatigue? For the past decade or so, the only critics of science fiction I pay any attention to, all three of them, have been slyly declaring that the Future is over.

William Gibson, somehow managing to appear to be channelling Jim Dales, my History teacher from High School (who told us about Toffler in the first place) Ugh.