me reading dune at 13: "they got rid of the computers? that seems drastic"

me at 45+: "yep i get it. wise man, that frank herbert"

To be fair, Star Trek is pushing the idea of utopian society. Prime directive. Evolved past money. Spending time people and resources on exploration. To seek out new life, not to exploit or destroy it. Tech in those hands is going to be far different than the same tech in our society’s hands.

I had loved the idea of a computer that was always listening and ready to go with helpful facts and analysis, until idiot tech bros showed me how it would really get done in modern society. :(

Her at 60: wow i can't wait till we have computers again so my 8 year old grandson doesn't have to go to navigator school and consume so much spice that he no longer resembles a human being, has to live inside of a tank filled with spice gas, and evolve beyond the ability to enjoy mundane pleasures like hugs from grandma.

I don't want the computers destroyed. I want the corpos destroyed who have made computers feel like an invasion.

Billionaires: we will make real fictional things, like palantirs, metaverses, and squid game Me: we will make real fictional things, like butlerian jihad

It's the near apocalypse in between Star Trek and Dune that's the problem.

It’s one of the big contradictions of Star Trek… they somehow achieved utopian society while running everything on fucking touch screens.

Soon musk will take out all the satellites and we're halfway there!

I'm willing to wait for 17 years and strat it

I dislike modern computers so much that I can’t even enjoy the old ones anymore.

i love her hair

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In Star Trek they still needed a global reset in the form of a nuclear war.

Second post with the same topic 😂 lemmy keeps sending doomerism my way! So enjoy it.

I'm sorry but her surname literally means Graveyard

Wow. Im going to die one day and all these problems and miserable fucks wont be mine to deal with.