/sci/ - Science & Math

Good afternoon, friends.

>>10447312

A.I. research is banned under the penalty of life imprisonment (with an airlock accident being more than likely during your trip to prison) and computers have regressed back to a roughly 1980s level. Lore wise, AI and computers become incredibly powerful by the mid 21st century, and everything goes horribly wrong; people dying from VR addiction, massive unemployment, mavericks, the works. As space development begins and the world starts to fall apart, Neo luddite movements with everything from smartphone burnings to silicon valley executive burnings sprout and flower. Long story short, reactionary luddism forms the ideological core of 22nd Century society. Cringey, I know. Honestly, I think that if we go full singularity like we probably will IRL, there will be no space colonization because we'll all be in the matrix or dead. I also think The Unibomber might be vindicated and industrial society will collapse. Or maybe in the future we'll all be gay or obese or whatever. Who the hell knows? Will the current trends in society buck, reverse, or mellow out? Only time will tell.

>>10447356

Biopunk is interesting, but not really what I'm going for. In-universe, surface to orbit is done with Skylons for people and delicate machinery, and laser launchers for bulk cargo. You mean skyhooks or space elevators, right? Any good stories with organic space technology as a background? I probably should've said before, but Dark Side's setting is a quasi-Utopian 70s-80s retrofuture. I'm going for a scientifically grounded near-future setting where almost all the technology falls under 'things we could do today or even 40 years ago if we had the infrastructure and balls'. I hate technobabble myself, but I like doing my research. Also a major plot point being made impossible by the setting would be unacceptable. You're right about a lot of older sci fi though.
>dinosaurs on Venus

'll definitely give that a read. Thank you.