interesting might want to cross compare this with mark fishers take on hauntology/lost futures
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If you’re making a comment about real life, it seems there are many westerners still writing good sf
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We don't have enough data. Another hypothesis is that a society with better knowledge of history (how the dreams of the past failed) is more careful what it claims about the future.
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We go from medieval art (unchanging world, so romans dressed like contemporary soldiers) to wild fantasies where anything is possible (~1900..1970?) to a realization that some things about humans don't change and so the
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Another part may be that most physics discoveries since the 1960s outside of bits are too esoteric // unusable for technology that impacts humans. There's no credible new future for how we use physics beyond Dune. No new ways physics impacts humans, no SF. Just fantasy.
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hard disagree. Look at all the futuristic SF done by Charles Stross. Take Neptunes Brood for e.g. which mixes Debt: The First 5,000 years with Bitcoin and communication delays imposed by the speed of light
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Counterpoint: Stanislaw Lem.
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So you’re saying true science fiction is neither fantasy or political (or not just those things).
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reversal hypothesis: a society that does not produce interesting science fiction leads to a professional class that cannot see a future for itself
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They haven't made any interesting science fiction since I was sixteen. Same for you I bet?
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