I don't think that everything inventable has been invented at all. I just
think that there just aren't any really good, original dreams out there
these days. I think many of our modern inventions were inspired by artists
who dreamed up what the future would be like - Van-Gough, Asimov,
Roddenberry, etc. And I haven't seen any truly inspirational, original
ideas from the artists these days. All the sci-fi is the same, and all of
the new ideas are just small modifications of the old ones.

Between the lack of dreams, the lack of investors (ever since the dot-com
crash), and the idea that anyone who is a dreamer must have ADD and should
be put on medication, it seems to me that dreaming and inventing is "out"
right now. It has inspired me to believe that society in the US has to
change before any really ground-breaking inventions show up here...

Of course, things can always change overnight...


Thomas Borchert wrote in
:

Judah,

I think for most people nowadays, there isn't much Magic.


Careful with statements like that. At the end of the 19th century,
common wisdom was that everything inventable had been invented. Things
have changed quite a bit since then...