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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

www.scientificamerican.com 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

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"Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Making Sci-Fi Real"

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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

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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?
Honestly, I think they're trying to send the masses to space and keep the earth for themselves.
- You mean like Jeff Bezos’ favorite Amazon-owned show, The Expanse?
  
  I've never seen it, but from the wikipedia page, yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)
  
  The Expanse is an adaptation of a sci-fi novel series.
  
  Plenty of homeless on earth in the expanse

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