I love both Star Trek and Star Wars, but Star Wars has a lot of really toxic fans. These days I tend to be a quiet Star Wars fan.
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Star Trek for me, I think (though oddly, I've played in a Star Wars tabletop RPG but never a Star Trek RPG). My wife and I started watching Deep Space 9 from the beginning about a month ago. I had seen some of it a while back (not everything, busy with school at the time). She had never seen it. We just finished season 1.
I don't think it qualifies as "old school", but I do like the Vorkosigan books.
Lately I've been on kind of a Scalzi kick. I'm partway through the Interdependency series.
Star Trek for the technology and exploration (both of space and the human condition). Star Wars because WOW that dude just moved that shit with his FREAKIN' MIND!
Think about the technology we have now - a lot of it was inspired by Star Trek technology. Communicators -> smartphones/watches, shuttle -> Rovers, non invasive medical diagnosis, large screens, video calls. And that's just from TOS. And I'm pretty sure people are still working on creating Transporters.
Everything I needed to learn about SciFi I learned from watching Prisoners Of Gravity on TVO. The host Rick Green was always interesting to listen to. I learned there was far more scifi than just TrekWars
I watched a lot more Star Trek as a kid but it's always the Star Wars universe that I feel drawn to. I can't really quantify it, I think it's just an aesthetic thing. I suppose Star Wars feels more 'wild west'.
Old school sci-fi: am re-reading the Asimov robot stories again. Always something new to reflect on.
Star Wars does feel more wild west. One thing I've wanted ever since TOS ended was a series about low-end people in the Star Trek universe - the crew of a little spaceship, on a par with Harry Mudd or Cyrano Jones (the tribble dude) making their way around the galaxy, having only occasional involvement with Starfleet. Basically what Firefly gave us, which is one reason I LOVED that show. What a shame it only lasted one season.
I feel like in a post-global pandemic world, where we have AIs that can pass the Turing test, VR world's where we can do global virtual raves, and if one cobbles enough cutting edge tech together one can say "earl Grey, hot" and a 3d printer can print up a model of a tea cup... I think scifi writers have to come up with what is NEXT.
No more "Oh this logical robot which can either be a metaphor for autism or enslaved people want to be free and human". Give us projections on our current technology and social evolution. Shows set in the year 2200 shouldn't just be dealing with the emergence of AI and still have only straight nuclear families.
True, most sci fi about the future just overlays fancy gadgets on top of present-day culture, and every robot is Pinocchio and wants to be a real boy. But if an author tried hard to speculate about future life it would probably be too unfamiliar and unrelatable to sell a lot of books - and I don't really blame them for not wanting to put readers in a too-unfamiliar world, they're trying to entertain not write white papers. Also consider the reaction to a writer who made it okay for an robot to get fulfillment out of just functioning perfectly. OMG no, we can't give that toxic idea any breathing space. Every entity must long for Freedom like an angst-ridden teenager or the writer will be accused of shilling for the system.
I completely agree with all the people regarding more "Technology" news, like MIT stacking more transistors onto chips breakthrough.
When I was looking for a tech community to subscribe to, I wasn't expecting this... 🙈
!hardware@lemmy.world (self-promotion, I am a mod there) covers semiconductor related topics pretty well.
That being said, some articles do include business and tech news.
Is social media not technology? If you don't want to see it, there are text filters.
By "social media" you must mean "echo chamber". Criticism is completely appropriate.
By "social media" you must mean "echo chamber".
Why...would you ever think that? Is everyone here echoing your sentiment?
Criticism is completely appropriate.
I wasn't saying it was inappropriate, just inaccurate.
I mean, it's all news concerning technology, or tech companies. Did you expect there to just be constant posts about new tech or improvements to existing tech? Because that shit doesn't happen every day.
Do we need a new post everyday?