There is a 1970 British series called UFO. If you are an XCOM (or X-COM, for older folks like me) you should check it out.
There are tech like shuttles to the Moon and racism has been all left in the past. In the future year of 1980.
XCom 2 is one of my favourite games ever made.
what’s your favorite part? and why is it sexy snake aliens?
I know this is just a meme but one thing I love about classic sci-fi (i.e. pre-1990) is the concept art. Michael Whelan and Frank Frazzeta being prominent examples of this. Their artwork are on another fucking level. There’s just so ethereal about those hand-drawn/pre-digital artwork of non-existent worlds.
The other half of the sci-fi novels begin, ‘It’s 2023, twenty years since Nuclear Armageddon…’
The year is pretty much arbitrary. It’s a simple calculation:
date(published) + 50or so.This is why I often prefer SciFi that distances itself from any idea of “our near future” - by using a completely different dating system for example.
The thing that actually gave SciFi its name - fantasizing about where science and technology might go from here - is not my favorite, esp. if there’s no consideration for societal development. Like misogynistic cowboys with laser guns.
Except we’ll get well into 2552 and people will still be struggling to survive paycheque to paycheque while reading the Halo series wishing John Halo would save them.
Like misogynistic cowboys with laser guns.
I read first few stories from Asimov’s I, Robot, and, holy shit, his robots are pretty much stand-ins for slaves. They are property, get threatened with violence, are forbidden to be in the streets at night, and some models even address their owners as “master”. But none of that is addressed anywhere, it’s some convoluted logic puzzles instead. So I don’t know if author was oblivious or thought such things are OK because they are not humans (terrible slippery slope to go on).
Robot literally came from the Czech word “robota”, meaning slave.
This is a commonly repeated falsehood. “Robota” in Czech (and many slavic languages) means work. So it’s a worker at that.
Social values go up and down. It’s not linear.
Look at how right Gen Z is or gay acceptance/persecution every few centuries.
I thought space travel was just around the corner until I was like 22 :(
Musk gave me hope when he sent a car to mars and then he spent the next decade either fucking democracy or fucking children.
Musk wanted to fuck children but wasn’t cool enough with the pedo crowd. Which is gross and extremely pathetic.
I too have high hopes I’ll see a human in orbit or on mars before I die. But all that big money is instead being spent on mega yachts and lobbying to fuck us over. So I think it’s more likely we’ll be living in a Mad Max movie instead of a cool space sci-fi one.
Musk wanted to fuck children but wasn’t cool enough with the pedo crowd. Which is gross and extremely pathetic.
Just because he’s too cringe to be allowed on the main pedo island, it doesn’t mean he couldn’t have found other ways.
It’s maddening how Earth has become a resort for about 2000 of this monsters, while everyone else has to suffer to feed their neverending greed.
when did musk send a car to Mars?
I know space x put one in orbit as an advertisement campaign but Mars is ridiculously more impressive.
I can’t find any source to back up your claim though
Ya that’s the one I’m talking about. I got mixed up
Only 5 years more until Mars!
And hyperloop. And AGI.
I will always be grateful to my second year middle school geography teacher for hinting towards Musk’s space grift. They were so underated, but everything they said was real.
