Science Fiction in the Days of American Authoritarianism ft. Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders

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Science Fiction in the Days of American Authoritarianism ft. Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders

System Crash

40 minutes

6 months ago

Science Fiction in the Days of American Authoritarianism ft. Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders

In the latest episode of our Elon In Power series, we’re joined by sci-fi authors and Our Opinions Are Correct co-hosts Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders to dig into how science fiction shaped Elon Musk, and how Musk uses it to shape his own mythology. We explore the problems with how Musk interprets (and fails to interpret) sci-fi stories, and the ways sci-fi memes are deployed to justify the visions of the future tech billionaires are trying to realize. Annalee and Charlie Jane also sh...