Is there something weird about our taste for apocalypse stories? | Aeon Essays
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
While science-fiction thrillers are drawn to dramatic apocalypses of fire and smoke, in reality we might be facing a banal apocalypse by clicking. To avoid such outcomes, for every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. Unfortunately,
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“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.”
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.”
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.