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qsera 15 hours ago

>We've normalized science fiction.

That is the thing I am mad about. We are getting bastardized versions of the science fictions of our childhood.

I fantasized about instant communicators across worlds, and we get mobile phones that work by planting a gazillion antennas across the globe. And people hail them as futuristic and say things like this.

I fantasied about human like robots and positronic brains, and we get a regurgitation of past humanity, in text, ensuring a future of total intellectual and artistic winter.

I fantasized a future with perfect health, but we get a million doctors and hospitals and a normalised dependency on medicines and an existence that is unthinkable without health insurance!

I fantasized about antigravity flying cars, and we get drones.

What ever it is, these things are blocking the path to the science fiction of my childhood.

So that is why I am not excited about these things. Not because I don't like computers and technology, but because I REALLY like them.