knowprose, 24 days ago

@scott Not for nothing, but many people who are not tech bros. don't know who the real monster is in Frankenstein.

Or that, "I, Robot" demonstrated that the 3 rules of robotics failed.

Or...

#literacy #fiction #scifi #humanities

mousey, 24 days ago

@scott can we, perchance, instead, stop making tech bros?

kthx

ghostdancer, 24 days ago

@mousey I'm afraid they're an inevitable undesirable secondary effect of the system. @scott

mousey, 24 days ago

@ghostdancer @scott Not with that attitude!

Pineywoozle, 18 days ago

@mousey They don’t reproduce well but they do spawn with far to much regularity for comfort. @ghostdancer @scott

ghostdancer, 18 days ago

@Pineywoozle Spawn is a very accurate and appropriate way to describe it @mousey @scott

LinuxAndYarn, 18 days ago

@ghostdancer @Pineywoozle @scott Or metastasize.

Pineywoozle, 18 days ago

@LinuxAndYarn Spawn then metastasize once they hit puberty. 😉 🤣 @ghostdancer @scott

LinuxAndYarn, 18 days ago

@Pineywoozle @ghostdancer @scott

What counts as puberty for a corporation, especially when many startups are little more than some Stanford frat boy's wet dream?

Pineywoozle, 18 days ago

@LinuxAndYarn I think it starts sadly with their first knowingly predatory act, successful or not. @ghostdancer @scott

LinuxAndYarn, 18 days ago

@Pineywoozle @ghostdancer @scott Ouch, we have strayed from comedy into truth.

DavidDarnes, 24 days ago

@scott tech bros are doing to sci-fi what politics has done to ‘The Thick of It’

LinuxAndYarn, 18 days ago

@scott "The Future of Another Timeline"" is starting to feel pretty aspirational to me.

susankayequinn, 24 days ago

@scott or we could make sci-fi that shows the world we want

https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction

oblomov, 18 days ago

@susankayequinn @scott

Missing from that list:

Marshall Brain's «Manna: Two Views of Humanity's Future», available online at
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

beeoproblem, 24 days ago

@scott tech bros can learn?