70s sci-fi predicted dystopic worlds where future tech enabled greater gendered oppression ("ordering" women in Logan's Run, say) —
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Did any sci fi work get right that technology would facilitate establishing common knowledge to combat oppression and harassment instead?
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It's not fiction, but David Brin's "The Transparent Society" makes an argument like this. Very interesting book.
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Star Trek?
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The Gate to Women's Country (Sheri S. Tepper), sort of, though further explanation is spoilers.
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I think the Neuromamcer series by
@GreatDismal predicted some of how tech would be used, but still dystopian.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Maybe a hard pitch for a 90 min movie. In written SF try Iain M Banks' Culture series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture …
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Maybe ‘Person of Interest’, in a weird sort of way, because it is about saving and oppressing everyone with AI.
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(Also I might be recalling this wrong but I think “the circuit” in Logan’s Runs suggests a dude as one of his options along with the women)
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Max Headroom, dystopic but crusading journalists exposed the lies. Really about TV. Can't think of any sci-fi that foresaw peer production
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I think Bujold's Cordelia books' Beta Colony comes closest in my awareness, but I'm woefully underread on Cherryh/Butler/Delaney/LeGuin/Russ
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Crap, those were published in the 80's, nevermind :-/
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The idea that differences would remain, but comms technology would enable us to understand better, w/o worldbrain hegemony, is not common
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(At least in my reading.) But I bet it's there, and I'd go down the psychic side of SF looking for it.
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