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Renneder@sh.itjust.worksM to BecomeMe@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

www.scientificamerican.com

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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

www.scientificamerican.com

Renneder@sh.itjust.worksM to BecomeMe@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago
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Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
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    Honestly, I think they’re trying to send the masses to space and keep the earth for themselves.

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      You mean like Jeff Bezos’ favorite Amazon-owned show, The Expanse?

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        I’ve never seen it, but from the wikipedia page, yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)

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        The Expanse is an adaptation of a sci-fi novel series.

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        Plenty of homeless on earth in the expanse

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