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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I guess they missed the heavy implications in much of science fiction as a grave warning to NOT DO THINGS THIS WAY and instead read things like Brave New World, Starship Troopers, Neuromancer, and others with distopian corporate oligarchies or fascist space empires as aspirational. I guess your perspective is a little skewed when you're born wearing the boot versus being the ground into the muck by it.

If only they'd read a little more Ursula K. LeGuin and Octavia Butler instead of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein. But then again, I guess if they had then they might not be billionaires today.