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What's science fiction without the machines? (leminal.space)
submitted 1 month ago by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of "well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine".

I mean there's gotta be another way. Examples?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I once read a SciFi story where people lived in a way-post-scarcity world. There must have been machines somewhere, but they did not play a role worth mentioning.