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The Expanse is one of the TV series that I was thinking of actually when I wrote that comment. It'd be too long to write down here but I feel like while The Expanse got many things right it also portrayed all sorts of fundamental things that were completely off.

For example even in the first season things that are fundamentally off that result in very different futures:

* The idea that we would actively intentionally re-create the situation of MAD in another context. MAD was an accident of historical happenstance and now that we know about it, we wouldn't try to re-create it.

* The idea that a magical new engine would suddenly appear that made many of the things in the tv series possible.

* The idea that Earth will for some reason simultaneously become a massive welfare state, yet still somehow have solar-system spanning power.

* The idea that there would be a complete backtrack in labor rights and labor safety (the ice asteroid mining scene).

parent mlindner 4 years ago

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