Andy Weir: evaluation

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…Correct, and dystopic. Yeah, a dystopian future with a semi-fascist government and plucky young upstarts fighting against it. And that’s an interesting story, but I think it’s been done to death. Just like zombies were a little overdone a few years ago as well. There is sort of a technophobia out there, and I don’t buy into it. I feel like technology generally makes things better. It’s also why I really don’t like the show Black Mirror, because it’s pretty much all about how technology is awful and will ruin the universe. And control. It’s all about control, technology. But you being controlled, not you controlling the natural world. But what is it, you think, in your individual biography that accounts for your greater loyalty to what is now the fairly old Asimov-Heinlein-Clarke tradition, when the other writers coming up, they’re mixed attitudes? But you’re one of the most optimistic, most pro-science — this integration of economics and engineering. What is it in you that has produced that?…

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