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 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
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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 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.
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@hakona @cstross Also remembering that plutocrat who built a hideout bunker in New Zealand. He fled there at the start of COVID and... found he could not get inside his bunker. Hoping he was pecked to death by keas, or something suitably unpleasant (being NZ rather than Australia, earthquakes or volcanoes are much more plausible forms of death than wildlife).
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@cstross Next step: the failsons of Bond villains? The inbred aristocracy of Bond villains?
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@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.
@mattly @joshsusser Prime video has it as Nine Queens
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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 Dick Tracey villains seems the obvious answer.
