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That feeling of being a lone optimist is ever-present for me as well. Sometimes I think it’s just a lack of real transcendent and great art. If science fiction’
by sebmellen 5y ago
That feeling of being a lone optimist is ever-present for me as well. Sometimes I think it’s just a lack of real transcendent and great art. If science fiction’s heyday is over, which artists are seeing and imagining the future today?
My personal biases incline me to think psychedelics have an important role to play.
- exporectomy 5y agoYet another lone optimist here too :) I grew up with a TV show called "Beyond 2000" about the miraculous things the future would bring. The future was widely seen as exciting and better than the present. But nowadays, popular culture seems pretty negative about it, as does science fiction. Maybe the really influential technologies like cars, transistors, computers, and space travel have finished their initial rapid growth and over-hyped stage? But why isn't machine learning or some of the new biotech technologies taking its place? They're as exciting as buggery to me!