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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He saw that Black Mirror episode and found it to be aspirational.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of the tech billionare's ideas comes from watching a dystopian 80s scifi and saying "let's do this but where I'm the bad guy."

Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn't in Total Recall.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn't in Total Recall.

Musk is trash, but to be fair, Philip K. Dick pretty much invented like 90% of popular, modern sci-fi tropes.