Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross
The nuclear winter caused by the global warming food system collapse wars will clean up the global warming! -
Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
Accidental Utopia. By trying to control the oil, the public is galvanised into full electrification and renewable energy, heading off the climate emergency. The next couple of years sees more oil price shocks and pushes a public already softened up during Covid to the benefits of walking and cycling to "do a Dutch" globally and elect leaders that implement cycling infrastructure and livable streets. A sense of community returns and the fascist tech bros are put to bed. The end.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross Ambient, Jack Womack
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross back in 2023 or so I started to make a computer game set in a future dystopia and post-apoc US circa 2100 CE. in my fictional future timeline for it I made it assume that in the Nov 2024 US Pres election a certain specific candidate won, and that once assumed powers of office began executing on a plan to... well, lets just say to worsen things, both in US and worldwide, by intent.
Thankfully that did not end up happening for real.
*cough*
Because that would be... bad. Really got lucky, oh man. Close one!
*cough*
loltears
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross Suckharderando
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross - There is supposed to be a saying attributed to the Buddha, amounting to saying there will be an age of things getting a lot worse, and then there will be an age of things getting steadily better. How valid is that, or how long are the ages we might expect?
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross in the future, scifi will be steampunk. Everything gets taken down a notch. Thankfully however, reality tv ceases to exist. Though the running man is real, so there's that.
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@cstross all I know is the story will probably suck
@Gabs
*plonk* -
Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross Don't ask a question you don't want an answer to, is my advice.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross Bond villains believe in science. For Evil, but still actual science. Rockets, lasers, orbital docking and retrieval... we have Lysenko and Stalin cosplayers.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross Ray Bradbury already wrote it.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross
Charlie.You called out the damned Torment Nexus, do NOT go handing them Torment 2.0, TNaaS or shit like that, mmm-kay?
I'm having enough trouble keeping the bottom-feeding slop-horrors off the café patio there at wandering.shop.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross you may have trouble topping my vision. *I* may have trouble.
Imagine the techbros and LLMs winning and getting their 'utopia' where people get 'paid' in 'tokens' for a chatbot eating it's own carefully reworked excretions for 10 years.
This was a REALLY bad idea to write in hindsight.
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross go worse than Warhammer 40k
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Axiom 1: We are living in the future.
Axiom 2: The future *really* sucks.
By induction: the next future will suck even harder.
By SF author brain: if this goes on, how sucky a future can I imagine?
(I mean, we've already gotten to live in a planet ruled by fricken' Bond Villains, how hard can you go?)
@cstross The sad thing is they’re more like Austin Powers villains. Cartoonish fascists.
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@cstross Bond villains believe in science. For Evil, but still actual science. Rockets, lasers, orbital docking and retrieval... we have Lysenko and Stalin cosplayers.
@oddhack Yes, worst case would absolutely include famines, plagues, and *all* available resources (public and private) squandered on failed mega-projects. The plague and the supply-chain failurees would hit *everybody*, including the wealthy. Vibe-coded infrastructure would have "vaccine sceptic" know-it-alls literally lying rotting in their malfunctioning fully automated mansions. Worst-case extrapolations from present day would be rejected by any publisher as too unbelievable. @cstross
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@joshsusser @cstross over a decade ago when staying in the Rioplatense area, a friend told me of the Argentinian mindset: it's all about scams, everyone's running scams constantly. When they see someone with a fancy house and car, it's not “oh they must be successful, I wonder what they do" it's “I wonder who they scammed that from"
now, I'm sure that was a bit overblown, but I've been reminded of that a lot lately
@joshsusser oh which reminds me, if you can find a version of it with subtitles (or you speak really good Spanish), the movie Nueve Reinas by Argentinian director Fabián Bielinsky is one of the finest heist dramas ever made.
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@oddhack Yes, worst case would absolutely include famines, plagues, and *all* available resources (public and private) squandered on failed mega-projects. The plague and the supply-chain failurees would hit *everybody*, including the wealthy. Vibe-coded infrastructure would have "vaccine sceptic" know-it-alls literally lying rotting in their malfunctioning fully automated mansions. Worst-case extrapolations from present day would be rejected by any publisher as too unbelievable. @cstross
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Accidental Utopia. By trying to control the oil, the public is galvanised into full electrification and renewable energy, heading off the climate emergency. The next couple of years sees more oil price shocks and pushes a public already softened up during Covid to the benefits of walking and cycling to "do a Dutch" globally and elect leaders that implement cycling infrastructure and livable streets. A sense of community returns and the fascist tech bros are put to bed. The end.
