Science Fiction

I was listening to a show on the radio a while back about science fiction writing and apparently it is not a popular as it was back in, say, the 50's and one of the reasons they think this is the case is because we used to look forward to the future as a better place but now we are trying to put on the breaks because things are looking a little bleak with global warming and other things of that sort. Or, maybe it's because all that sci-fi stuff is already here. I remember how outlandish it was in the old Star Trek TV series when they would pull out their flip phones and talk to someone on the starship from some planet they were on. I took two trips this summer and they were true vacations. No computers, no email, no cell phones, no driving, and no news. Just life back to the basics. There was nothing to pull me out of my present state. Nothing to distract me from the task at hand. If I wanted to talk to someone I had to go find them and talk to their face. The old fashioned way. When I got home life seemed a little overwhelming and a little science fiction and I'm still having trouble figuring out what normal is. Society seems to be moving in one direction and I might be moving in another. Maybe it is, as my brother says, time to go build that bunker out in the woods.