In an essay called “What Happened to the Future,” Thiel and his cohorts described how Twitter, its 140-character messages, and similar inventions have let the public down. He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of technology’s ability to change the world.
https://foundersfund.com/the-future/ I have seen this argument a few times recently - that we as a society no longer have big exciting visions for the future that we used to have, and thus dystopian stories have come to dominate - in other words, our optimism has shifted to pessimism.
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