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Indeed. I don’t get it though. Why not push every timeline out by a safety margin of hundreds/thousand years?
by shoto_io 5y ago
Indeed. I don’t get it though. Why not push every timeline out by a safety margin of hundreds/thousand years?
- dane-pgp 5y agoPersonally I would have a hard time suspending disbelief if a story set in 2200 didn't have super-human AI and all diseases cured. Similarly there should be no pollution or over-population, at least in first world countries. For humanity to avoid achieving those things, there would have to be some significant barriers to progress that we don't know about yet, or a fairly disastrous collapse, which would limit the possible stories that could be told. I suppose that setting a story thousands of years into the future allows there to have been multiple collapses and renaissances, but I'm not convinced that such a path is as likely as a permanent collapse or reaching some sort of uninterruptible paradise state.
- guerrilla 5y agoI just think of it as an alternate timeline now
- shoto_io 5y agoNice. That’s great trick