you know whats interesting
in the future, things will exist that we will have no chance of understanding
like, if you took a man from the 13th century and showed him a computer he couldnt even begin to comprehend it
hell, if you showed him like, a lamp, he wouldnt get it
things like that are going to exist
and its something im disappointed that sci-fi media has never really enterprised on

If we can't comprehend it how would we be able to make scifi about it? Also scifi has predicted/influenced a lot of modern things, like our smart phones are not much different from the little personal computer gadget thingies that you commonly see in old science fiction movies. In the early 1800s, Ada Lovelace was not only envisioning computers but programming for them too.

How come sci-fi authors always forget about inertia and generation gaps

The Rule of Zero, I guess, "Why have pilots when you can have AI in their place, because otherwise it's hard to relate/immerse/care."
You can see it in Star Trek [Light Speed/Crews instead of Drones], and Star Wars [Fighter Pilots instead of Drones].

I guess no one wants to have a space battle involving realistic futuristic missile boat drones duking it out at relativistic speeds backed up by planetary defenses against blockading forces.

Well like you know how in Deus Ex, a huge part of Gunther Hermanns character was that he was one generation behind JC, fully able and strong, but still severely outdated because he didn't have any nanotech. I'd like to see more sci-fi addressing E.O.L management and coping for previous gen technology.

You don't have to understand something to make it up. Putting a real reason behind why it works is the hard part. Or a "real" reason.

fun fact: I graduated high school today

>all these people still having school in june

I beat System Shock 2 today

I think what Foa said is very true but also there have been books that cover this. One of my favourite scifi novels, Forever War by Joe Haldeman (I think Grif and a few others here are fans as well) is about a soldier experiencing time dilation from instellar travel. There is one part of the book where he experiences future shock at the changes in humanity over the decades he's been away, such as pervasive homosexuality and men's use of makeup.

If that's too much of a gap for you there was the recent movie Robot and Frank where an elderly man from our generation experiences alienation from the current generation. Most poignant is the restructuring of the local library. Due to the accessibility of digital texts, all books from Frank's local library are removed, but the physical building itself remains as it's all about the "library experience". I think I mentioned this movie before.

Izen: Congrats! Spoilers: post secondary life will be different but the amount of difference will be disappointingly small.

That sounds great, thanks.

i really want to get off MR.XBONES WILD RIDE

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This is still among my favorite images of all time.