<![CDATA["Science fiction used to be a wild, fantastical guess about a distant future.]]>"Science fiction used to be a wild, fantastical guess about a distant future. Today? It’s basically just a product roadmap for technology companies.

We were aiming for the post-scarcity, exploratory utopia of Starfleet. Instead, we accidentally downloaded the corporate surveillance, cyber-attack, and rogue AI expansion pack" https://www.hardrefresh.life/sci-fi-just-product-roadmap-technology-companies/

Time to split utopian -fi subgenres off into their own genre. -scarcity

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/2c353c2b-4cd4-4b3b-b155-25e3a462d80c/science-fiction-used-to-be-a-wild-fantastical-guess-about-a-distant-future.RSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 12:39:19 GMTSun, 12 Apr 2026 22:30:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Science fiction used to be a wild, fantastical guess about a distant future. on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:13:05 GMT]]>@craigoverend IDK how accidental it was.

I used to love scifi (pre-2000s) but its clear that most scifi authors from any era loathe renewable energy. The only exception to this is when the renewable tech becomes this ultra-macho project... surround the home star with a Dyson sphere to completely dominate it.

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