[mortenjorck]

Relevant William Gibson commentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11502715

  "In the 1960s I think that in some sense the present was 
  actually about three or four years long," he said, "because 
  in three or four years relatively little would change… The 
  present is really of no width whatever." 

Our sci-fi present is making sci-fi harder to write.

[jes5199]

except that this article was written in 2010 (three years ago!), and not much has actually changed since then.

[raldi]

Except the tablet revolution, massive leaps forward in translation and speech recognition, an electric vehicle being named Car of the Year, multiple states passing self-driving car legislation, featherweight wearable computers that project an image directly onto your retina, a private company successfully docking a spaceship with the ISS, discovery of the Higgs Boson, large-scale entanglement in a quantum computer, a man jumping from a balloon at the edge of space while millions of people watch live over the Internet, an SUV landed on Mars via a sky crane, a computer crushing the world's best Jeopardy players, wireless video calls via a pocket computer...