| ▲ | 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. | ||