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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If you went back a few hundred years and told them a story about a future where smallpox was gone, where the black death didn't come anymore, where people's problems weren't too little food, but too much food, people would have called that Pollyanna. But that's the world we live in.
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But if you then told them there is increasing evidence that whole nations will be swallowed up by rising ocean waters, a man with a suitcase or a test tube could kill thousands and make vast cities uninhabitable, or that our entire civilization is relying on a cheap energy supply that will run out in the next few decades with cataclysmic consequences, they might not wanna swap.
Some might argue that SF isn't pessimistic enough.
Still, anything that's written or approved by Neal Stephenson would be a near must buy for me.