292! Sci-Fi

Critical Nonsense

What kernels of truth are there in sci-fi content today that can maybe predict what our smart technological futures will look like?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about retrofuturism, the Otis elevator, all things Dymaxian, AI, post-scarcity society and ship names. They don’t talk about our dystopian present.

references

• Christmas in Connecticut
• Otis Elevator
• Dymaxion
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Corrections Department: Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Iain M. Banks' Culture series
• Post-scarcity
• Neural Lace
• Neuralink
• The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
• Humans
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky