Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
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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
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Except faster than light travel. That would be cool.
Depends on the kind of FTL.
Star Trek where it takes hours to get across the universe? No thanks.
Battlestar Galactica where you "jump"? Yes please.
Oh, is a few hours to travel hundreds of billions of light years too slow for you?
Yes! I can't just have a cut scene to get to the next destination. And I don't have a group of plucky ensigns to do holodeck adventures with.
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