On William Gibson and Future Fatigue.

Okay, I just can't get into Spook Country.  I was grabbed by Pattern Recognition more strongly than just about any other book in recent memory, but this one just doesn't have it going on for me.  And I've been reading interviews with Bill here and there where he talks about this general idea that he can't write the future anymore, or that the future is unknowable because of present events, or something along those lines.  Cory Doctorow's mimicked it too.  And we have all these former cyberpunk-ish writers writing technothrillers now, like Bruce Sterling.

They all seem to be burned out on the idea of a future that is farther than 5 years from now.  Almost like they don't think there will be much of a future farther out than that.  And god, the terrorism/CIA/espionage angle.   Everything's obsessed with terrorism.  The attacks on 9/11 were a tragedy, but is there that much more terrorism today than there was in the 70s or 80s?  Isn't there even less?  Everybody is so bloody obsessed with it.    And their obsession is boring me. 

Say no to future fatigue, writers.  The old guard may have given up on the future, but you shouldn't.  I don't know about you, but I am still interested in reading a future that doesn't read like a modern update of 1984.