Science fiction, a genre famously known for its sunny vision of techno futures. How about a medical show where nobody gets sick or a cop show where there is no crime while we're at it.
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The only happy ScFi vision is Iain M Banks Culture, but they're all post scarcity, drugged up, communist, pan sexual hippies. In a society where there's no hierarchy.
So they really wouldn't like it.
There was a show like this, Century City. It was a futuristic legal drama with an overall positive view of tech and what it means for the future, with luddites usually playing the villains. It lasted eight episodes.
"What if the genre created as a warning about technology hurting humanity could be turned into just propaganda promoting it instead?" he said, as everything Charlie Booker wrote about came to pass as business plans from sociopaths.
The gist of the post was that we need more science fiction (books, TV, movies) that are not dystopian. I agree and with this article. It should also not be utopian, but protopian. To get to a better future, we need people envisioning new paths to get there #abundance https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/special-series/protopia-movement.html
Roddenberry is long gone. My biggest complaint with the current Star Trek universe (which started in the European Enlightenment tradition) is that it has become dystopian. Your statement, "Science fiction, a genre famously known for its sunny vision of techno futures," is wildly out of date.
The “White Mirror” sci fi is when the technology just works as intended in the background, enabling people to do the things they wanted to do with minimal interference, as though it isn’t there.
At which point the sci-fi focuses on societies, environments and people.
Is there a hate bot that searches for words to dunk on, like the DEI database that pulled up “Enola Gay”? Cause whoever this idiot is, he has no clue about the show.
"Optimistic SF about technology and how it relates to society? What if I told you there was an entire SF franchise about a post-scarcity society where people who have rejected poverty, racism, and war go around performing science and diploma--"
"Gotta stop you right there. I didn't mean woke shit."
I'm white, descended from abolitionists, acknowledge my white privilege, and never voted for a Republican. Don't imply that I'm MAGA cuz I'm white. It won't change my voting, but we need to stop saying things that will be interpreted as anti-white racism. We need to pull former Trump voters over 1/2
whenever we can. The only two racial/ethnic groups that voted for Harris more than Biden were older white people of both sexes and black women. I don't even care if they believe in democracy or education. If they just lost money in their 401Ks - I still want their vote. 2/2
Thank you for doing politics in a normal way where you try to win. Instead of just creating some very special bohemian subculture, I guess that's what people are doing.
all the "cool" technology that could actually help society is constantly being struck down by a government owned by oil lobbyists, especially under the current administration.
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So they really wouldn't like it.
https://bsky.app/profile/schooley.bsky.social/post/3lmpblplntk2c
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/special-series/protopia-movement.html
At which point the sci-fi focuses on societies, environments and people.
"Gotta stop you right there. I didn't mean woke shit."