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Andy Weir: evaluation

20 Dec 2017 Conversations with Tyler Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space

“I have a very optimistic view of the future. It’s my belief that every century is better than the last.”

— Andy Weir

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Andy Weir
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20 Dec 2017
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Conversations with Tyler

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…And the optimistic vision in the original Star Trek, do you find that persuasive? Yeah, I love it. I have a very optimistic view of the future. It’s my belief that every century is better than the last. And if you don’t believe me, let’s say I pointed a gun at you and pointed you at my time machine and said, “You have to go back in time some exact number of centuries, but you get to pick.” You’re going to choose one century. You’re not going to want to go back further than that. You’re going to want to go as far forward in time as you are allowed to go. I don’t want to go back. But if you give me the choice to live born in 1962 as I was, or to go 400 years into the future, I think I would stick with the status quo.…

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