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Little Jimmy used his space laser pistol to blast the eyeballs out of the reptilian space alien invaders from Chinnastan, thus saving humanity and getting the girl!
THE END
This is pretty much a summary of 90% of Japanese anime (I try to watch the other 10% --> 他一割部分を見てほしい)
How much more optimistic could it get for a white male anglo-european christian sci-fi reader?
Good point. Can someone recommend some good optimistic science fiction?
I've been recommending "The Deluge" by Stephen Markeley, which is simultaneously very dark and quite optimistic.
"Walkaway" by Cory Doctorow
Good point. Can someone recommend some good optimistic science fiction?
A Half Built Garden was lovely, I thought. Ada Palmer had a good write-up on Hopepunk . Many of the example books come towards the latter half of the write-up. https://beforewegoblog.com/purity-and-futures-of-hard-work-b...
Good point. Can someone recommend some good optimistic science fiction?
- Energy is less of a problem, between cheap solar cells and batteries.
- Materials may start to be a problem, but not yet.
- Population is leveling off and dropping in some countries, but continues to grow in Africa and among the religious groups which keep women at home.
- Equatorial areas are becoming uninhabitable.
- AI is rapidly getting better. Not clear how good it gets, but if everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, you're in trouble.
- Robots for unstructured tasks are just beginning to work. Maybe. The mechanical problems of building robots have been pretty much solved. Motors, sensors, controllers, etc. work well and are not too expensive. There are well over a dozen humanoid robots that can walk now. (Unlike the days of Asimo, which barely worked over two decades of improvement.)
- Automatic driving is being deployed now.
So how do we build a society to deal with that?
Good point. Can someone recommend some good optimistic science fiction?
The Monk & Robot books[1] are my personal favorites in the whole genre. [1]: https://us.macmillan.com/series/monkrobot
Good point. Can someone recommend some good optimistic science fiction?
The Ministry for the Future , by Kim Stanley Robinson. Realistic and optimistic climate fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Udemy classes, youtube tutorials / lectures, books on how to start writing scifi etc?
OK, we know what's coming. - Energy is less of a problem, between cheap solar cells and batteries. - Materials may start to be a problem, but not yet. - Population is leveling off and dropping in some countries, but continues to grow in Africa and among the religious groups which keep women at home. - Equatorial areas are becoming uninhabitable. - AI is rapidly getting better. Not clear how good it gets, but if every…