> I believe that a lack of alternatives to our current political and economic ideas is a problem for the world right now.
While I agree with this statement, I think imagining alternative political and economic systems is not primarily about science fiction. We could imagine these new forms of society with existing technology. We could imagine a future with technological regress which is political/economic retro-utopia where everyone has adequate food, housing, access to healthcare, education, green-space ... but no screen-based brain-rot, AI, space exploration or other fancy tech.
As is !kinda! said in Remembrance of Earth's Past but people seem to not understand that (what) all kinds of warnings are in those books. For example concept of Sophons is applicable to computer espionage... Or i can see with visible , IR , UV sensors on satellite, what literally my neighbors backyard looks like... everything is transparent on high enough level... privacy is only between citizens not between state/military and citizen. and no between states.
i provided Russian casualties because currently there is big disinformation campaign of Russian gov going, targeted towards USA citizens.
Edit: Because russia is no.1 threat to western style of live in current time. (because what they do. not because what we think about them)
While I agree with this statement, I think imagining alternative political and economic systems is not primarily about science fiction. We could imagine these new forms of society with existing technology. We could imagine a future with technological regress which is political/economic retro-utopia where everyone has adequate food, housing, access to healthcare, education, green-space ... but no screen-based brain-rot, AI, space exploration or other fancy tech.