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# Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
- URL: https://werd.io/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science/
- Published: 2024-01-03T15:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-03T15:59:00.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

Charles Stross on tech oligarchs trying to build the torment nexus:

"SF authors such as myself are popular entertainers who work to amuse an audience that is trained on what to expect by previous generations of science-fiction authors. We are not trying to accurately predict possible futures but to earn a living: any foresight is strictly coincidental."

The CIA famously funded the Iowa Writers' Workshop to guide American literature in a non-didactic, less revolutionary direction. I wonder if there's a future in funding science fiction writers to create stories with more utopian themes for leaders to draw inspiration from in the future. [#Culture](https://werd.io/tag/Culture)

\[[Link](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/)\]