The future is unwritten. There are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. Both of them are great fun to write…

“The future is unwritten. There are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. Both of them are great fun to write about if you’ re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happen in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario.”

–Bruce Sterling, National Academy of Sciences, Convocation on Technology and Education, Washington D. C.,  May 10, 1993 (viainthenoosphere)