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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative," Huang said.

I mean, part of the role of science fiction is to try to look at the future as technology changes it. Not all of it is hard sci-fi, but I wouldn't across-the-board discount sci-fi. A lot of changes have been in sci-fi before reality.