@SeekingPlumb

Considering a different sort of sci-fi.

And this was no small group. They had something like 5 million people or so learning how far ahead they were. And if they had survived, I wonder what we have. There's a general idea of what the future looks like when we're talking about space travel. But if this group had risen, what would that future look like? How much further ahead? I almost feel like Sci-fi has become somewhat stagnant when it comes to developing new ideas at one time

A space-faring people with the cultural underpinnings of a long-dead civilization. Human sacrifice? Art & architecture? Beliefs?

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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyemΒ Β·Β 4:36

Is our civilisations that advanced!? Technology: no sign of advancement....

What is an advanced civilization? For example, if you look at the Facebook culture or the Millennium culture, they are easily impressed and manipulated by pictures, by images. They are easily attracted. Their way of reacting emotionally could be considered moral, but at the same time, they have lost the restraint that some more ancient people had, in my opinion, that is control. Verify your information. Don't jump up
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@Sarlax
Samuel Lacuna
@SarlaxΒ Β·Β 4:57
So for them, all possible Sci-Fi futures have that kind of Americanized vision of the future. Even authors who kind of deviated from that American style future. We're still playing off themes like that, like in the Blade Runner predecessor novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The world is ruled by the Soviet Union. The US has lost a war, but that's still an American perspective on what the future looks like. So how does Sci-Fi break out of this?
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@SeekingPlumb

Who influences "progress." Why I ask "what if" questions. @dzakyem

I think you sort of hit the nail on the head, right? Depending on which culture dominates, there are going to be different things that are valued. 1 may value technology, another art, you know, another of religious belief, like there are so many options and whatever it is that they do find the most important is going to have a different effect moving forward. And how that's going to look in real life
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@SeekingPlumb

YES! (Binti Trilogy, Nnedi Okorafor. Recursion, Blake Crouch.) @Sarlax

They build these massive hegemonies or Commonwealths, but there's usually something missing, and I haven't been able to articulate that. And then I will read books Sci-Fi books by women, and they lack the same things that the men are good at, but they are really good at doing humanity. I think it's really rare to find an author who can pull both of those things together really well
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@Sarlax
Samuel Lacuna
@SarlaxΒ Β·Β 4:58
Thinking back to Star Trek, it's about men boldly going where no man has gone before. It's a very kind of manifest destiny approach. But what if there was Sci-Fi taking on the culture themes of just a different group? Thinking about that idea of the Incan Empire? Here's a concept
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@SeekingPlumb

What an interesting book THAT would be! (Your Incan future.) @Sarlax

But what if it went bad? Like if we're looking at the ink and civilization and I mean human sacrifice? We already have many thoughts on that, I'm sure. But what if it went super bad? What would that look like and then kind of having these opposites of technology advancing in a positive direction? However, we define that and then the culture
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 5:00

Thanks for making me think today. @SeekingPlumb and @Sarlax

You know, this makes me think of a YouTube channel I watch called Film Courage. Film courage. I'm sorry, where they talk with screenwriters and producers about the process and craft of making film. And one thing I hear often there's two conflicting things I hear there's one where it's more towards the business side of how to make films. And then there's, like crafting with the art of making films. One thing you hear often on the business side is is this marketable
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