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
All I want is for one of these super rich fucks to start obsessing about preserving Earth and building massive carbon capture plants that also generate clean drinking water from the air. Dump billions into pulse fusion reactors and build them into every carbon capture plant. Create a stable biodome...right here, on Earth. And use the entire planet for the experiment. Can someone please get on that?
You don't get super rich by thinking of others.
Good news: Sci-fi is about to become real
Bad news: it's a Jerry Pournelle novel
Tech billionaires: Fuck you, I'm rich! I do whatever I want. Don't like it? Be richer.
Tech billionaires: I'm going to live forever so I have to figure out how to get all the money in the world for myself by taking it away from everyone else. Me, me, me, I, myself, me, I, me, myself, me and not you
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
I used to work for Paul Allen, managed his social media messaging systems and was an internal consultant (integrating systems when Seahawks were purchased, etc) in the late 1990's...
Paul Allen was inspired by science fiction of Carl Sagan's "Contact", and build the Allen SETI array. It isn't all bad.