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Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays.
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Don't forget that Star Trek universe went through an apocalyptic phase before reaching their post scarcity society. I'm quite optimistic that we'll reach Star Trek levels of peace, but reaching that state without having 90% of the population annihilated in some kind of a World War or some other catastrophe? That's what I'm kinda pessimistic about.
Never mind Star Trek, at the rate we're going we'll be lucky to get The Expanse.
I mean, we've already surpassed The Expanse in some ways (at least the first couple books).
Something that struck me was in Caliban's War they were relying heavily on mirrors to focus sunlight for growing crops out at Jupiter. I guess the authors just didn't foresee LED technology advancing as rapidly as it did.
Leviathan Wakes was published in June 2011. Caliban's War was published in June 2012.
The L-prize "60W" category winner was announced in August 2011 (it was Philips). It didn't become commercially-available until April 2012, but even then, it was like $50 -- far from affordable for most people. Now you can get equivalent or better bulbs for less than 1/10th of that.