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058: What are the Top Ten Ways Science Fiction Fails to Predict the Future?
058: What are the Top Ten Ways Science Fiction Fails to Predict the Future?
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59 minutes
Released:
Jul 1, 2015
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Podcast episode
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In today’s episode we give a comprehensive list of the sci-fi tropes that bother us the most. While not all science fiction has an obligation to be speculative, we would like to see more science fiction that avoids certain cliches when it comes to predicting the future. We discuss the following tropes: The Prometheus Problem The Boot-in-the-face Dystopia Societal Regression […]
Released:
Jul 1, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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