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0 pointsscotty796mo ago0 comments

I love SF, but somehow I don't find it very good foundation for predicting the future. Especially when people focus of one, very narrow theme of SF and claim with certainty that's what's gonna happen.

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Flere-Imsaho6mo ago

> I love SF, but somehow I don't find it very good foundation for predicting the future.

Nineteen Eighty-Four would like to have a word with you!

Out of all SF, I would probably want to live in The Culture (Iain M. Banks). In these books, people basically focus on their interests as all their needs are met by The Minds. The Minds (basically AIs) find humans infinity fascinating - I assume because they were designed that way.

nearbuy6mo ago

Nineteen Eighty-Four captures the political zeitgeist of when it was written (~1949) and the following years better than it captures that of 1984. This was the era of the cold war and McCarthyism. Describing the present often seems surprisingly prescient to later generations.

danielodievich6mo ago

Props on the very appropriate username, drone.

Ray206mo ago

I mean, yes. The invention of AI that replaces virtually all workers would certainly pose a serious challenge to society. But that's nothing compared to what would happen if Jesus descended from the sky and turned off gravity for the entire planet.

stevedonovan6mo ago

Heh,I read SF as San Francisco; point remains true. Except the Valley wants to force a future, not describe it

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