People’s imagination of the futurity of city/metrapolis, concomitant with the technology progression, is changing over time. In modernity era people imagine future with a huge bulk of machines, the sky becomes dark and mechines’ roaring make people’s voice uncovered. However, when people witnessed the huge progression of internet and computer science, they realized that the future they imagined before just cannot predict the apperence of internets, though computers, robots and cyborgs have been discussed before.
Boyer pointed out this narration change of machine and cities. We just want to predict the future, but it is also a fact that future is really hard to predict. In the start of 21st century, people expect a bio-tech era in the coming years, but biology is not such easy to evolve, as we see today that we even cannot quickly deal with a pandemic. Modernism vs postmodernism sci-fi, which could be represented by the difference of steam punk and cyberpunk, are all speculations of future, basing on the soaring technology at that age.
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It is a sounding conclusion that you have made – the speculations of the future are based on the soaring technology at the time of prediction. If so, what do these bold predictions imply? Full adoption of the soaring technology of the moment? Why do artists (architects/filmmakers/ novelists) take up this job to imagine the full adoption of technology?