Technology: WTF?
I swear, the next book I write is either going to be set in the distant past or in the far, far future--any time period when I don't have to worry about the technology changing as I'm writing the book. The technology of Ancient Rome is pretty set in stone, and as for the distant future, I can just make stuff up. But right now? Every time I type a scene that involves an iPhone or the Internet or a computer I risk having the next version of the device make my book look horribly out of date.
Case in point: The Cloud.Â
I had this nice little plot thingy going in which a character loses everything when a computer goes down, only to be told by my more tech-savvy friends that most computers back-up on the Cloud now, so he really wouldn't lose a thing. I found a way around it, but who knows how long that will last before someone invents an app that solves that problem, too?
