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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/24/23 10:49, Stuart LaForge via
extropy-chat wrote:<br/>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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.</pre>
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<p>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. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap">
- samantha
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