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
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
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
I wouldn't mind star trek apart from the whole WWII thing. But what they're aspiring to is worse both coming and going.
In the Trek timeline the Bell Riots seem more plausible than ever these days. And they have to go through WWIII before humanity collectively pulls its head out of its ass and manages to finally do better. The more I think about it lately (due to watching a lot of ST shows) the more I think we stand no chance of changing until after we totally ruin everything...assuming we survive, of course.
I guess they missed the heavy implications in much of science fiction as a grave warning to NOT DO THINGS THIS WAY and instead read things like Brave New World, Starship Troopers, Neuromancer, and others with distopian corporate oligarchies or fascist space empires as aspirational. I guess your perspective is a little skewed when you're born wearing the boot versus being the ground into the muck by it.
If only they'd read a little more Ursula K. LeGuin and Octavia Butler instead of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein. But then again, I guess if they had then they might not be billionaires today.
What a crap opinion piece. If we didn't have rich people dreaming of how to do scifi things we probably wouldn't have all the shit we have now. Going to space. Computers. Medical advancements etc.
Except everything you mentioned came from the minds and hands of moderately paid middle-class engineers not the good graces of a rich person.