"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 #sci-fi subgenres off into their own genre. #hopepunk #solarpunk #lunarpunk #ecopunk #post-scarcity