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Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold, @cstross and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.

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FredKiesche,
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@CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon @cstross

green_bens,
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@FredKiesche @CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon @cstross

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

js,
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@FredKiesche @CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon @cstross Gordon Gekko, as a clear anti-role model: “GREED IS GOOD”.

Neocons: hold my beer.

tito_swineflu,
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@CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon @cstross It's weird how these billionaires haven't figured out that they're the bad guys in these novels.

brad,
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@CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon @cstross If either Gates or Musk read Snowcrash as a teenager, that would be a huge boon for sci-fi. Specially, time travel sci-fi.

Remittancegirl,
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@CultureDesk @cstross @pluralistic @bookstodon too bad they didn’t embrace the hope inherent in most of it

NatureMC,
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@CultureDesk It's a very topical question regarding the sub-genres #CliFi or #ClimateFiction, #solarPunk and #hopepunk. The latter experiments with positive changes.

But it becomes extremely creepy when you take a closer look at how #SiliconValley #billionaires mix sci-fi with radical right-wing eugenics ideas and knit an anti-democratic ideology out of it. Named #TESCREAL, a sort of tech fascism: https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/ and here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/?gift=pNhm6V1nG5ZO8R8GWle1H01Kw4OvqWH8-6RE146aONg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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NatureMC,
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@CultureDesk BTW, @cstross is also on Mastodon.
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CultureDesk,
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@NatureMC Thank you — we'll tag him in the post!

NatureMC,
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@CultureDesk 👍

tinderness,
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@NatureMC @CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon
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Lazarou,
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@CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon I don't Elon Musk has properly read any of those books, ESPECIALLY the Culture Novels.

That vision of the Future is one the transphobe Elon would hate.

#TheCulture #ElonMusk

SkipHuffman,
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@Lazarou @CultureDesk @pluralistic @bookstodon he sees himself as a shipmind where he would never even be considered for Contact, much less Special Circumstances

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