This post is getting shared again for some reason, so I thought I'd remind people that I did actually eventually write it up into a longform article. 😄
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
This is a longstanding fascination of mine; how mid-20th century science fiction created an extremely robust and durable vision of "the future" that people now take as true in a platonic sense, like it inevitably already exists in potentiality, and we're just waiting to discover it.
Nathan Goldwag
Yes, this:
"There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."
No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
