Comment by qsera
9 days ago
>This was the science fiction of our childhoods.
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 regurgitiation of past humanity, in text, ensuring a future of total intellectual and artisitc winter.
I fantasized a future with perfect health, but we get a million doctors and hospitals and medicines for everything 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 childhoods.
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