The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoThe future is a branching pathlemmy.worldimagemessage-square173fedilinkarrow-up11.53Karrow-down113
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minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up37arrow-down3·3 months agoIdiocracy sadly was the only futuristic story to get it right. Wall-ee probably a pretty safe bet too. At this point, any “blue future” sci-fi writers still out there are disillusioned dreamers.
minus-squaremelpomenesclevage@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-23 months ago‘Ministry of the future’ wasnt bad, by a typically Utopian writer. Parts of it felt plausible.
minus-squarebaropithecus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI haven’t read Ministry, but I’m not sure I’d call KSR a utopian. Aurora was some pretty bleak shit. (Great book though)
minus-squareBelastend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·3 months agoNah, idiocracy is weirdly eugenic drivel.
Idiocracy sadly was the only futuristic story to get it right. Wall-ee probably a pretty safe bet too. At this point, any “blue future” sci-fi writers still out there are disillusioned dreamers.
‘Ministry of the future’ wasnt bad, by a typically Utopian writer. Parts of it felt plausible.
I haven’t read Ministry, but I’m not sure I’d call KSR a utopian. Aurora was some pretty bleak shit. (Great book though)
Nah, idiocracy is weirdly eugenic drivel.