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Notes On The Apparatus of Science Fiction

Science fiction has not been a genre of literature that I've paid too much attention to in my life. Not for any hard and fast reasons, I've just found myself in other aisles of the library or bookstore more often. That being said, I get well chuffed seeing a good science fiction film. During this Covid lockdown I've had more time than usual to sit around and ponder life and where we might be heading. Not in my lifetime mind you, but rather what the future might bring. What will life look like in two-hundred years? A thousand? We live at a time when everything can be documented, recorded, and made note of. I don't know if there will be a time in the distant future when archaeologists will be attempting to reboot ancient laptops and attempting to figure out what Facebook or TikTok was all about; perhaps there will be no need to dig stuff up and take wild guesses. Perhaps we are documenting life as we know it and in time the missing link of our time and place will be c