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Forget Dystopias, These Sci-Fi Writers Opt For Optimism Instead

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Forget Dystopias, These Sci-Fi Writers Opt For Optimism Instead

Everyone loves a good apocalypse. But some writers are opting for optimistic, solution-oriented sci-fi instead.
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A good prediction about how I would feel if I suddenly gained access to the technologies of Star Trek translates into a bad prediction about how they will affect society as a whole. Overlooking hedonic normalization leads us to exaggerate the joyfulness of the future and to overstate the joylessness of the past.
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