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

[kay-gmd.livejournal.com]

I generally think of near future as having tech that is recognizably familiar, and lacking any tech that is not being currently investigated unless the development of such is part of the plot or clearly part of the back story.
i.e., attempting to colonize mars or the moon might be reasonable, but not most likely something out of the solar system unless it was a set up a ship to last as long as possible and hope we hit something kind of thing.