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Andy DeMeo's avatar

Great piece. Topical as well with the release of the "Abundance" book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, which harps on longstanding themes of Human Progress. I cover optimism and problem solving across New England and am seeing more and more of this perspective adopted-- keep it up!

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Michael Brown's avatar

Science fiction writers are usually the first people to see the possibility for a new technology.

Those writers need villains to drive the action and suspense in their stories. So they make the new technology a villain. Robots. Beings from outer space. Time travelers. Human clones. People resuscitated by organs was Frankenstein. AI was Hal and Skynet. No wonder everyone is afraid of them.

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