Is it prophetic, or do we have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale? Hmm…
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
I noticed this with cyberpunk stuff, too. The genre has been incredibly prophetic. It just sucks that it’s all the stupidly bad shit and not a single one of the super cool sci-fi things.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh yeah. You know after World War III it’s not going to be warp engines that get invented.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
But we might have neutrino (?) bombs; those theoretical bombs that can just vaporize people and leave buildings and infrastructure intact.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neutron, not neutrino.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
We should be reading/watching/sharing more solarpunk then!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
The problems lie in the “punk” part. Just like cyberpunk’s prophetic bad stuff isn’t the cyber.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Um, no. It’s the very opposite of that. Solarpunk addresses inequality and bigotry directly.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
I mean that those things still exist in the world. The stories are about fighting those things, usually as John points out.
Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 5 months ago
I read this comment on the toilet using a pocket-sized computer that everyone I know owns, and we’re all addicted to.
Nobody’s buzzing around in flying cars, but if they were, they’d be so ubiquitous we’d just say “meh, we should have jetpacks by now.”
I do agree with you that we’re getting all the Bad Stuff though.
kautau@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is very true. I use iSH on my phone to run python scripts and ssh into servers, I use Working Copy to make git commits from the toilet or my bed. Like for all intents and purposes, my phone is a cyberpunk “deck,” but I suppose cyberpunk is literally named “The Dark Future” for a reason, considering all else that is going on.