On 8/8/19, John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
sci-fi sitting on ass
Point is that sci-fi will always remain sci-fi unless people put down the sci-fi book and start getting up off their ass to make it happen, or at least contribute directly to what they read. Humans have communication nets, space probes, transplant surgery... all because they put down that sci-fi book, ignored all the FUD bullshit from their fakeass Rulers, and got it done. Then the next impossible sci-fi book came out, and they got that done too. Now with private cryptocurrencies over encrypted overlay networks, you're right, people can in fact remain seated on their ass and clickfund $10/month to whatever [underground] sci-fi projects they read about on their [darknet] screens :) The FUD in schools, government, religion, all sorts of other weird control and power structures, is a significant unnecessary artificial holdback on progress, whether dreamed up in sci-fi or elsewhere. And is another topic altogether. Live long and prosper.