Scifi pessimists say – we’ll never be able to feed 8 billion people.
Scifi optimists invent algae which can fix nitrogen from the air, generate fertilizer, and live in a symbiotic relationship with roots of food plants in airborne greenhouses.
Scifi pessimists say – global warming will kill us all.
Scifi optimists invent CO2 scavenging algae which generate [...]
Scifi Optimists versus Scifi Pessimists
September 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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Why are scifi authors so pessimistic about the future?
August 15th, 2008 · 6 Comments
A common theme in many of today’s scifi stories is one of desolation, typically a planet ruined by human activity, or a population which cannot be properly fed or sustained.
Where is the creative thinking which gave birth to our precious genre? Where are the hero scientists who learn to feed a million people per [...]
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