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"Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Making Sci-Fi Real"

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"Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Making Sci-Fi Real"

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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

www.scientificamerican.com

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

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Because Star Trek future doesn’t have their favorite features: bigotry, inequality, and runaway capitalism.
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  That’s Starfleet. They want to be the Ferengi crossed with Cardassians.

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