The other day I mentioned being inspired by J. G. Ballard's autobiography, Miracles of Life, in which he stresses that SF is the best way to write about the present. And while I was on the road, I took this dictum to heart (not for the first time), and started looking for things about society that I might transmogrify into gnarly SFnal objective correlatives.

[Awesome giant graffiti mural in Kamloops, Canada.:]

Idea #1: living ideas. The internet is still quite new and undigested, some fresh SF w