Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
www.scientificamerican.com
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
  • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    In theory yes, much like History.

    But then one day you have people thinking “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a user manual.

    • CanadaPlusEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Oh god, has that happened? I’ve mostly just seen continued growth of the ideas that inspired it.

      • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        No, not yet ? I don’t think so but I stopped reading bad news to live in my own lemmy wholesome bubble made of food, sci-fi and cats.

        • CanadaPlusEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Ah, okay. Shits crazy out here, but there’s nobody in the West suggesting fertility slaves or abolishing female literacy.