A fascinating example of dystopian, pessimistic fiction displacing the hopeful, optimistic truth. Turns out that Lord of the Flies is dead wrong. Maroon some boarding-school boys on an island and they act sensibly, generously and imaginatively.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?CMP=share_btn_tw …
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I'm reminded of the fact that science fiction usually overestimates the pace of physical change (which has become very hard, especially today) reasonably estimates the pace of change in information technology (except AI) and totally underestimates the pace of social change.
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Tighter and tighter feedback loops, big whirls made of little whirls
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