I’m always exceptionally susceptible to ‘technojoy’. Robot friends! Space! Utopian megacities! Unfortunately, as a human living in the world today, especially in India, reality provides far too many opportunities for ‘technofear’ and ‘technofatigue’. No one knows what India will look like in 2050. No one knows what India will look like next month—much will remain as is, some things will be worse, others better. Science fiction often takes a lot of credit for predicting the future, even as it is just a projection of individual and societal hopes and fears at the time of writing. Sometimes predictions match reality because of good research and pattern recognition. Most often they don’t, and it
HERALDING UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA?
Jan 06, 2024
4 minutes
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