Comment on Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com]

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• zaphod@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Odinkirk@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Meanwhile, Black Mirror presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning and not a corporate benchmark for [next fiscal quarter].” – AVClub

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yeah. You know after World War III it’s not going to be warp engines that get invented.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But we might have neutrino (?) bombs; those theoretical bombs that can just vaporize people and leave buildings and infrastructure intact.

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    • eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neutron, not neutrino.

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• danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We should be reading/watching/sharing more solarpunk then!

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problems lie in the “punk” part. Just like cyberpunk’s prophetic bad stuff isn’t the cyber.

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    • danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Um, no. It’s the very opposite of that. Solarpunk addresses inequality and bigotry directly.

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean that those things still exist in the world. The stories are about fighting those things, usually as John points out.

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