Une petite interview de M. John Harrison

[jerome]

C'est en anglais, c'est assez court, mais voici une interview de l'auteur de science fiction M. John Harrison.

C'est ici

Petit extrait :

"What do you see happening to the sci-fi genre over the next ten or twenty years?
I haven't a clue. Maybe a new form of data management will come along, commit all this digital stuff to the dustbin of the past and provide brand new content as well as brand new media! People will realise that it’s not just a way of managing data, but a quantum change for human beings. The 40 to 50 year old digitistas will be swept away. It will be the end of history. Sf will rediscover its aboriginal values and sense of optimism and live again, and the winners will be those who cleft to the new technology when no one else had the smarts--their triumphalism will begin to bore the tits off us about four years later but we will have to live with it for much longer. Something like that could happen.

Can you tell us something interesting about yourself that isn't related to writing or science fiction?
I bought a Honda this week. It’s silver with black leather seats. Cars like this, with their VTec engines & onboard computers, will change the meaning of the term “human”. People’s brains will actually be rewired by their interaction with the technology. For instance, they will flock to the out-of-town malls to buy orange things from China. They will sit in their car on their own. They will phone each other up while driving at 80mph to say, “I’m on my way home. Pardon ? No, I said ‘home’!”"