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March 12, 2016
There's a romantic requirement for individual
human actions to be of critical importance, but
this goes against the grain of the modern world:
we do our best to create social structures where
humans are relatively interchangeable.
If there's a need for a human being to rise above
their station and do something heroic in order to
solve some critical problem, that's a bad sign that
the system is broken and needs to be re-worked.
A big role for individual agency
seems unlikely to survive into the
distant future...
Luke Skywalker can out-perform the ROMANCE_BY_DESIGN
"targeting computer", but only
because of his special mystical
connection to The Force-- the need
to resort to such unlikely, absurd
premises in order to prop up human
agency is seriously pathetic.
Is it possible to write far future science fiction
without that kind of romanticism-via-absurdity?
Herewith, I sketch out some "scenarios", which are not
seperate and distinct: these are science fictional Ideas
that can be blended in different ways.
GAMESTERS_OF_TERRA
UPLOAD_AND_AWAY
ALIENS_AT_PLAY
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