TECHNOLOGY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION -- BY L. GORDON CROVITZ, The Wall Street Journal

Best-selling writer Cory Doctorow on change and its discontents.

When Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" in the early 1800s, the issue was not corpses brought back to life. The novel captured anxiety about then-emerging technologies such as the steam engine, as people began to ask whether we know what we're doing with what we invent. We've been asking ever since, with science fiction a handy way to track our comfort level with technology.

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