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Re:The Writing on the Wall: Sci-Fi’s Empty Techno-Optimism by hideo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:27PM (#30074733)
Yeah I re-read it 3-something times and I have no idea what's going on here. Here's what I took away

- Most Sci Fi is too dystopian

- Project Heiroglyph forced authors to be techno optimist and it didn't go anywhere

- Authors must deal with human malfeasance (isn't that just the dystopian fiction that he is against)

- ???

- Profit?

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Re:The Writing on the Wall: Sci-Fi’s Empty Techno-Optimism by toolcombinator on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:49AM (#30084392)
Don’t forget: “Entrepreneurs are evil!”

Because you know, entrepreneurs aren’t an integral part of who helps shape the future. They’re evil capitalists. And in the future they’ll be evil space capitalists.

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