Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?
ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
With a few exceptions, you’re confusing cause and effect.
Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?
ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
With a few exceptions, you’re confusing cause and effect.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Exactly, Sci Fi writers almost never invent an entirely new technology for their books, they just look at current technology, think a bit about where it might head, think about how that could interact with broader societal forces, realize some flaw there-in, and write about it.
Technologists are doing basically the same thing, looking at current technology, thinking about where it might head and what might be useful and/or profitable, and then start trying to overcome current obstacles to develop and build it.
But one of them takes a single person a year or two to write a book, and the other has to start trying to do research and building things and testing them and breaking them and getting funding and overcoming the current obstacles etc. etc. If they start at the same time it will look like the technologist has just built what they were warned not to, when in reality they’ve been building it the whole time on a parallel path.