[ExI] SciAm & Charlie Stross: BS

[Samantha]

On 12/24/23 10:49, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:
>
> In his piece, Stross says that "Science fiction, therefore, does not
> develop in accordance with the scientific method. It develops by popular
> entertainers trying to attract a bigger audience by pandering to them."
> And then he drags billionaires over the coals for daring to be
> influenced by the science fiction that he and his colleagues wrote who
> are just trying to get people to buy their books. But in reality, the
> billionaires are just trying to do the same thing: sell people more
> technological products by pandering to them. It is not a huge leap of
> logic to think that people who buy books depicting futuristic technology
> might actually want to buy the technology were it available.


Funny.  I always read science fiction to escape the doom and gloom, 
business as usual, go along to get along  dark drab mode of the day.  I 
read it to fuel imagination, zest for science and technology, positive 
belief that the world could be much better and even hints how to get 
there from here.   If that is "pandering" it is pandering to some of the 
most positive and optimistic parts of human beings. - samantha
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