Jo Miran@lemmy.mlM to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 month agoYOU SHOULD KNOW RULElemmy.mlimagemessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down12
arrow-up1514arrow-down1imageYOU SHOULD KNOW RULElemmy.mlJo Miran@lemmy.mlM to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoWe never reached the promised (now retro-)futurism of the distant year 2000. We keep surpassing ourselves in that regard. Despite the evidence artists retain (sell?) all that hope of the brighter future. Even doomer fiction keeps falling short.
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoThe literary subgenre of cyberpunk, including the Cyberpunk TTRPG (1980’s), got a lot of it right.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoYeah, Neal Stephenson and William Gibson probably got about as much right as Aldous Huxley or George Orwell
We never reached the promised (now retro-)futurism of the distant year 2000.
We keep surpassing ourselves in that regard.
Despite the evidence artists retain (sell?) all that hope of the brighter future.
Even doomer fiction keeps falling short.
The literary subgenre of cyberpunk, including the Cyberpunk TTRPG (1980’s), got a lot of it right.
Yeah, Neal Stephenson and William Gibson probably got about as much right as Aldous Huxley or George Orwell