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Many tech billionaires who grew up on science fiction are intent on building dystopian technology, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues. He writes about a new book by Jill Lepore that explores how they took the wrong lessons from their favorite novels:

bit.lyWe Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old BoysMany of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

5/9/26, 9:15 am27 reposts88 likes

Interpretanalyst

@interprtz.bsky.social

5 Sept

The world being played with on the chessboard of their childhood trauma.

CalleyCat

@calleycat.bsky.social

5 Sept

And the social sensibilities of 13 yr. old boys unexposed to the need to develop interpersonal skills to live civilly in a world of actual humans.

Bourgeois mfer

@ghunkinking.bsky.social

5 Sept

Sorry, but this is an absurdly narrow reading of science fiction. AI, spaceflight, robots, and technological abundance aren’t automatically dystopian props or satire. A huge amount of SF treats them as genuinely liberating forces. Not every rocket is secretly a warning label.