{"id":308,"date":"2025-04-15T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world-science-fiction-books-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T05:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:54:51","slug":"the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world-science-fiction-books-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world-science-fiction-books-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world? | Science fiction books | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>the dystopian settings of so much cyberpunk fiction are seen by today\u2019s tech leaders as prophetic visions of a world they need to try to escape \u2013 whether by colonising Mars, building metaverses or, in the case of Vance\u2019s billionaire patron Peter Thiel, backing efforts to create new city states by buying land in developing countries. In the original novels it tended to be people like them responsible for creating the dystopias in the first place, but they\u2019ve somehow projected the blame on to the masses.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/apr\/14\/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/apr\/14\/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the dystopian settings of so much cyberpunk fiction are seen by today\u2019s tech leaders as prophetic visions of a world they need to try to escape \u2013 whether by colonising Mars, building metaverses or, in the case of Vance\u2019s billionaire patron Peter Thiel, backing efforts to create new city states by buying land in developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}