Maybe we could get a more interesting future by electing science fiction writers. Stross-Doctorow vs. Gibson-Sterling would make for some fun campaigning.

The election is here, it's just not evenly distributed.

I can't find the most recent stats, but you are right[1]... at least for the House of Representatives.

[1] http://www.datamasher.org/mash-ups/people-representative#tab...

If the question is who would believe ALL of it, the answer is: people who are very credulous, and people whose prejudices are catered to by these stories.

It is very easy to forget that just because some stories of a certain kind are true, not all of them are true.

The privatization of the police and military is right out of the pages of Snow Crash.

Snow Crash was written long after Robocop and the Sprawl series.

Sheesh. Kids.