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074. Graeber's Pirate Enlightment -- Cory Doctorow

Everyday Anarchism

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The Science Fiction Writer Can't Predict the Future

"I have this cauldron here with some stones in the bottom. Does anyone have a, you know, a flying car that they can come and add to it so we can all enjoy a delicious soup?" "The science fiction writer offers a future that can be worked towards or perhaps fled from it's stone soup," he says. 'It does seem like many of our billionaires are bad are bad fans of Star Trek' "'Cyberpunk was a warning and not a suggestion is lost on people who want to build the metaverse,' I honestly don't understand why there isn't more sci-fi books being written right now."

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