In case all y’all missed it, I want to make sure we don’t ignore the ethical dimensions, which I only found out about yesterday. In the previous thread about writing novels, I wrote:
Ahh well, now that mystery is solved.
It seems that the “future” is built on the exploitation and psychological distress of poor, black workers.
Time is cascading ever faster, so that the gap between “oh cool new thing” and “oh, horrifying version of the same terrible old thing” is now just weeks.