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God though, I LOVED the idea that we should all get rid of rubber tires and just turn the roads into one long mass of rubber to roll upon. That was CLASSIC. :) Or was that satire? Oh shit, I just don't know!
Given that their rockets keep blowing up, a really long time...
You guys are such skeptics. I bet you don't even believe him when says that the US is going to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy before 2100.
Manny wrote: "You guys are such skeptics. I bet you don't even believe him when says that the US is going to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy before 2100."
That seems much more likely.
Okay. That, I believe. I just don't believe that we'll have any sort of successful revolution, though. ;)
There's a reason why dystopias are huge these days. They reflect people's perceptions of reality. Heinlein was such a damn optimist. :)
Robert wrote: "Manny wrote: "You guys are such skeptics. I bet you don't even believe him when says that the US is going to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy before 2100."
That seems much more likely."
Agree. If some current trends continue unabated, I would start to seriously believe that this is a real possibility (if not de iure, at least de facto) - and well before 2100, I am afraid.
Isn't predicting the future part of the point of sci-fi? And just as some like watching motor sport for the accidents, some like reading sci-fi for the things it gets wrong.
Nah. Maybe old-time SF. The modern stuff is all about reflecting what is and extrapolation. :)
That's the same thing, isn't it?
The only difference is our relative position to the author's future.
Except I don't think modern authors are particularly trying to say, "Hey, look at what I got right!"
David Brin is an exception. *looks away, embarrassed*
About SpaceX rockets "always blowing up"...he was interviewed on the second Tonight Show. He says the rockets will be ready for people (that is, SAFE) in two years.
The rockets are "blowing up" (crashing), because they're trying to land the same rockets that went up, onto a barge at sea. (For now, it's safer at sea...) They're trying to land them just like in the SF stories, and ARE getting good results.
Yay! A manned Mars mission in my lifetime! He has some ideas about making it habitable, a "long version and a short version".
Yeah, I like Brin too, Brad; also Kim Stanley Robinson, who advises our government on global climate change, pollution in the oceans, etc.
I keep up with them both, but it was Brin I've been following ever since I read Earth when it came out. What a prophetic novel. :)
Not soon enough; ideally for him and all his exes, children.
carol. wrote: "Not soon enough; ideally for him and all his exes, children."
Grok needs to write a short story about this. No, no, what am I saying? I mean of course a seven volume series with a tie-in movie franchise starring Sydney Sweeney, that's more like it. Sorry.
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God though, I LOVED the idea that we should all get rid of rubber tires and just turn the roads into one long mass of rubber to roll upon. That was CLASSIC. :) Or was that satire? Oh shit, I just don't know!
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Given that their rockets keep blowing up, a really long time...
You guys are such skeptics. I bet you don't even believe him when says that the US is going to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy before 2100.
Manny wrote: "You guys are such skeptics. I bet you don't even believe him when says that the US is going to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy before 2100."That seems much more likely.
Okay. That, I believe. I just don't believe that we'll have any sort of successful revolution, though. ;)There's a reason why dystopias are huge these days. They reflect people's perceptions of reality. Heinlein was such a damn optimist. :)
Robert wrote: "Manny wrote: "You guys are such skeptics. I bet you don't even believe him when says that the US is going to be ruled by a fundamentalist theocracy before 2100."That seems much more likely."
Agree. If some current trends continue unabated, I would start to seriously believe that this is a real possibility (if not de iure, at least de facto) - and well before 2100, I am afraid.
Isn't predicting the future part of the point of sci-fi? And just as some like watching motor sport for the accidents, some like reading sci-fi for the things it gets wrong.
Nah. Maybe old-time SF. The modern stuff is all about reflecting what is and extrapolation. :)
That's the same thing, isn't it?The only difference is our relative position to the author's future.
Except I don't think modern authors are particularly trying to say, "Hey, look at what I got right!"David Brin is an exception. *looks away, embarrassed*
About SpaceX rockets "always blowing up"...he was interviewed on the second Tonight Show. He says the rockets will be ready for people (that is, SAFE) in two years.The rockets are "blowing up" (crashing), because they're trying to land the same rockets that went up, onto a barge at sea. (For now, it's safer at sea...) They're trying to land them just like in the SF stories, and ARE getting good results.
Yay! A manned Mars mission in my lifetime! He has some ideas about making it habitable, a "long version and a short version".
Yeah, I like Brin too, Brad; also Kim Stanley Robinson, who advises our government on global climate change, pollution in the oceans, etc.
I keep up with them both, but it was Brin I've been following ever since I read Earth when it came out. What a prophetic novel. :)
Not soon enough; ideally for him and all his exes, children.
carol. wrote: "Not soon enough; ideally for him and all his exes, children."Grok needs to write a short story about this. No, no, what am I saying? I mean of course a seven volume series with a tie-in movie franchise starring Sydney Sweeney, that's more like it. Sorry.