• Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    He’s obviously desperately trying to revive the image of being a genius again. But everybody knows what kind of charlatan he is.

    • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      See, this is why I love SciFi. “Amazing! I wonder how this will go…”, questions the average person. “Here’s 50 books and movies that will show you how this will go…”

      • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Except it doesn’t.

        Don’t overlook the ‘Fi’ in ‘SciFi.’

        Aspects of tech are often correctly predicted in SciFi going all the way back to Lucian writing about a ship of men flying up to the moon in the 2nd century.

        But surrounding what they often get right the authors always get things wrong too. For example, contrary to Lucian’s ideas, in reality the ship of men that flew up to the moon didn’t find a race of human like aliens that were only men who could carry children and had a bunch of gay sex with the men of Apollo-11.

        TL;DR: Correctly predicting a technology in a story doesn’t mean correctly predicting the social impact and context for that technology.

    • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The general technology seems very useful for people with severe disabilities.

      Even just being able to “speak” or move in a wheelchair is something that millions of people in the world can’t do.

      Of course the money will be in mass implanting this on the general public, for that I’m not sure they will manage to convince me

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Why would anyone want the cybertruck? Yet at present, it’ll take them over a year to clear their backlog.

      Some people are just dumb - that applies doubly for those that love Musk because he speaks the Nazi conspiracism Truth™.