Science Fiction

You know how sometimes, you look at some aspect of modern life and go, "This was science fiction when I was a kid"?

Well, right now -- with everybody living in their own little pods and all of my social events suddenly moving to cyberspace because of a world-side plague? Yeah.

Not all science fiction is happy-making.

(Although on the bright side, thank heavens for the modern Internet. Not many years ago, this would have been far more unpleasantly isolating.)

Virus as weather

There's an old truism about weather and work:

• Before the blizzard, all anybody can talk about is, "Wow, look at that approaching storm".
• During the blizzard, all anybody thinks about is the storm.
• After the blizzard, all anybody can talk about it, "Hey, how about that storm?"

This feels like we're heading into a multi-month-long version of the same. I think it will get less distracting as time goes along, but we'll see...