I'd like to see a New York 2140 series.
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IAWTC. It'd not only be way more relevant than Red Mars, it'd even be way more entertaining...
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I'm reading it now for the first time and the dated science stuff is barely noticeable, which must have been on purpose. He misses the ubiquity of pocket screens but nails realistic AI: machines that learn to do basic construction tasks.
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The dated stuff was about Mars topology and climate. Terraforming Mars is going to be much more difficult than KSR thought.
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It’s excessively optimistic about political change.
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(nods) I believe it. IIRC, It's even more excessively naive as to why the United States of America or the Russkies would want to bother spending their hard-earned Nation-State monies to jointly go to Mars at all.
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It's not just the science that's dated *now*:
The *economics and politics have been dated for years, going on decades*.
Every now & then I try to google a certain back copy of SF Eye that made this very critique in the mid to late 1990s...
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Oh, btw, His Mikeness, or whomever the VP is using as emissaries in the oval office, apparently were able to reach him between May 13 and June 7:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1137070480274395137 …
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Or just as good, give The Expanse the budget it needs
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