Being a Dystopian Future Sci-Fi Writer... - CatTrigger
Being a Dystopian Future Sci-Fi Writer...
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Dystopian Sci-fi writer will end up writing Star trek eventually
Technically they already are...
Nothing more dystopian than having society's needs meet.
I like the detail that after 2019, he couldn't afford another laptop.
Either he can't afford, or anything for sale is worse than what he already had.
I dunno what is happening faster.
anything for sale is worse than what he already had.
hear hear. 10 year old laptop, still going strong
I'm still rocking the same laptop since 2018.
Hell yeah. For most things (including writing like the article) that should be sufficient. The biggest worry is obviously the battery.
Only laptop I got new was a low-end Razer by winning a raffle. I have a couple other hand-me-downs too, but none of them keep a charge for longer than 5 minutes anymore.
This is part of why watching episodes of Trek that ruin the utopian ideas hurts so bad right now.
I wanted that escape to where there were people who always did the right thing and institutions were dependable and honest. The "The Pegasus" hit, with canon black ops. Then the captain nuked a planet...
republicans literally talk about the last one as a dystopia
"Telling them lies" lol its called newspapers, radios, and television, which is older than 1999. At least with the invention of smartphones, people can share videos to crosscheck facts (for those willing to seek the truth anyways). the murderer who killed George Floyd would be walking free without a phones with cameras and the internet that allows this to get spread.
2nd panel (2010) is valid tho
As for pandemic? Y'all didn't pay attention in history class? Black plague? Only thing that stopped them from going worldwide was the travel technplogy was slower (they didn't have planes)
4th panel (2024) is very USA-Centric, AFIAK the EU doesn't have such lawless "grab people off the streets" right now.
Nope, and since our governments are virtually all coalitions it's much more difficult for something like that to happen here. I'm thankful for the style of government my country has, where everyone needs to make concessions. It has its drawbacks, but it does protect the country against this type of power grab.
2nd panel: in 2010, I think jellyfin didn't exist yet, so there are now better ways to own media, too
The new meta of dystopian fiction is utopia that we can never have.
So the plot of Elysium? Utopia for the rich and hardcore survival on a dying planet for the poors.
"The future has arrived - it’s just not evenly distributed yet." -William Gibson
This is me. I have three unfinished scifi/horror manuscripts that will probably remain so because I took so long to write them that the future I created would be a boring dystopia if it got published today.
Post apocalyptic stuff still sells, though, or stuff that is so esoteric and far in the future that it'll be timeless for another 20-50 years.
Time to read The Dispossessed again
Lovely book.
Welp, that hits right in the feelings. I started writing a dystopian Handmaid's Tale-esque as a warning about Trump, and I had to cut out the bit of Trump dying and his successor going insane, because... he showed his craziness.
I think the first four panels might end up being a prerequisite for the fifth. Unfortunately.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization."
To note: the "peak of our civilization" he's talking about was 1999. Which is arguably kind of on point.
Yes, seeing the whole quote again for the first time in a while, I very much noticed that.
Except if you're black, gay, trans, non-male, or live in a developing country.
Y2K bug was real. The people running our simulation didn't notice and the bugs have been increasing at a compounding rate...
It's important to remember that the notion of "humans are the virus" said by Smith shortly after or before this (which is a very popular opinion right now) is inherently ecofascist.
I don't quite follow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
Smith wasn't arguing for the eradication of the human race, since his life and the life of all machines depend on it. He just hates the emotional inefficiency of it (free will and all that)
Yea. The Matrix was great and had good points but also had some very not-so-great points.
just plug me in, coach
i want to be juicy and delicious
I would totally take the Matrix over real life right now, especially if I'm allowed to know it's a simulation. "I won't wake up, I promise! I just want to have cool powers n shit!"