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We've mentioned several times in class that the processes/concepts we're noticing in blogging/on the internet aren't necessarily new, that they're just being made visible by the Internet. Science fiction lets us look through time in a way blogs haven't. I think this has to do with it being a genre-genre rather than a medium, like blogging-- we can trace it and the concepts we've been exploring (remix, thought evolution, how we categorize) through time and various mediums.

My Spanish professor has been pushing an idea that I'm not sure I entirely understand about science fiction's vital importance as a genre. He argues that to create science fiction narratives is to claim a future for oneself, discussing this idea in relation to the almost complete absence of Hispanic science fiction, which he attributes to the difficulty of moving as a social/political group beyond an unhappy past. He holds up rare examples of Hispanic sci-fi as steps towards "decolonizing the future"-- that is, imagining a future for oneself rather than endlessly rehashing the unhappinesses/colonizations in one's history.