it induces psychosis in most normal people, and the only people who take to it naturally are monsters
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there's one sequence that really stuck with me, with a husband and wife fighting each other to the death in an arena but the thing is, if they fight well, they don't really die, they get rewarded with even better bodies and the show just regards this as a Moral Abomination
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which is a fundamentally conservative approach -- the question of consent doesn't matter, nor autonomy, nor choice within a constrained system rather, it's just Unnatural that a husband and wife should fight like that and they're Depraved for engaging in that activity
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This is just a general thing about science fiction, including cyberpunk, that it's just as often about invoking fear and disgust at the possibility of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know as it is optimism and curiosity
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The whole Caveman Science Fiction joke from Aaron Diaz
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Really you could argue "cautionary tale" science fiction has always dominated the genre in one firm or another and is generally more influential than "gee whiz wouldn't it be cool" science fiction
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Like where's the "Fuck yeah more smartphones" counterpart to Black Mirror
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Star Trek, hopeful science fiction has and continues to be anchored by Star Trek for the last 60 years.
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Even Star Trek has a LOT of scripts that are about technology as a dangerous addiction (most prominently in TOS but a fair number of 90s Trek episodes too)
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Sure, but the general thrust of the series isn't in any way about that, most of the conflict is personal or societal and the tech is mostly "cool! fun toys and actualized philosophical thought experiments"
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Kirk has a thing for blowing up computers that run society
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