Cyberpunk predicted in the early 1980s that people would one day live in a world that looked very much like the 1990s. Its authors – led by William Gibson – did this primarily by taking the temperature of the world around them and just predicting the worst non-apocalyptic future they could. It was also the most successfully predictive science fiction movement ever.
Read MoreAs of the time you read this, we have slightly less than 87,500 hours to fix climate change. If you’re in the United States of America, you have slightly less than 7,344 hours until the polls open and you can cast a vote for the next president. I, personally, have about 300 hours from the time you read this to plan my class for this coming semester, because I’m going back to that 5AM grind I was so happy to escape from.
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