A poll for science fiction masses

[kinzel]

As someone who went to Clarion West thirty five years ago I'm participating in this years Clarion West Write-a-Thon ... see my page at: http://www.clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/SteveMiller

alas, my stated goal is to write a new near-future science fiction story and now it turns out that the phrase "near future" creates different expectations for different people. So, I need help figuring out what's near future. I also hear that all near future sf "should be mundane" but ... I dunno.

What's your take:

[Poll #1209566]

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Time frame -- close enough to feel as if I might see it? (which actually makes 75 to 100 a bit iffy, but let's be optimistic).
Subject material -- I'm still one of those who wants some science in my science fiction? That's where the fantastic critters (unless explained as aliens or some such) kind of leave me wondering how the borders of the genre have eroded?
Mundane SF? What's that? If you take the wonder out, what are you left with?
A good story, set in a recognizable future?