You can't hide secrets from the future.

[maskdemasque]

I expended a lot of effort to make this fandom journal unconnected to my main journal. (with a few accidental hiccups.) Why? Well, partly because my mother reads my main journal. In addition, it's probably possible, with some effort, to find my main journal by searching my name/other information. Which means that prospective employers could be

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[maskdemasque]

Well, this is a short little snippet and I tried to leave it pretty vague. I'm working on a project that's set in the future, though not quite this far into the future, and the themes I'm trying to work through are basically that each generation is fundamentally similar to the last, with only superficial changes. Of course, this is several generations into the future, which means that their fandom will be different enough from ours that they wouldn't be able to recognize our version of fandom as fandom. If, for instance, the majority of media becomes interactive, the idea of fandom might become largely meaningless, or so ever-present that people will hardly think of it.

As far as the future of fandom is concerned, it largely depends on how hard the major media outlets decide to embrace the internet. If television and internet are merged in a significant way, there will be a big shake-up in fandom. Whether it makes it harder or easier to be a fan remains to be seen. Unless intellectual property laws change significantly, fans won't be able to make money from their projects, probably. But a lot of things affect fandom, not least of which the fans themselves, who are largely a very insular group, the most extreme of whom have a lot of trouble interacting socially. I think if anything destroys fandom, it will be that attitude, which is what creates the largest amount of wank. (nods)