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Mortal-Region t1_ixav68a wrote

Reply to comment by Key_Asparagus_919 in should this subreddit become explicitly anti- techno-pessimism? by [deleted]

The problem is that doomerism is sort of the default opinion, so the more people who show up with only a casual interest, the more you'll hear the same few pessimistic ideas repeated over and over. That's what turned futurology into just an echo chamber. (With a weird obsession with synthetic meat for some reason.)

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Key_Asparagus_919 t1_ixb3o1g wrote

Name me at least 5 movies where technological progress was exhibited as something good.

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goodsimpleton t1_ixb6dou wrote

Imitation Game October Sky The Right Stuff Temple Grandin Quest for Fire

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Key_Asparagus_919 t1_ixb74a6 wrote

Well, you probably love movies a lot, but most people couldn't name a similar list

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goodsimpleton t1_ixb8k4u wrote

I think in reality the subjects of films have not to do with the fate of technology or the beliefs of most humans but what 18-40 year old men will pay $20 to see. Your comment holds more water when applied to futurist films but literary futurism consist almost exclusively of cautionary tales and even they have more to say about those who weild technology than the tech itself. So part of the issue seems to be that the genre of futuristic speculative fiction is almost exclusively dark in tone. This has as much to do with marketing costs and audience expectations as anything else I expect. We don't watch Mad Max and The Matrix because they are more plausible than a film about a world in which technology heals society but because it is more compelling entertainment. Works about the future reveal our feelings about the present more than anything imo.

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Mortal-Region t1_ixbbtqb wrote

Ok, five sci-fi movies. Basically every sci-fi movie now is set in a shithole.

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