speculative fiction that attempts to feel out how something that fits the exact use of the modern internet might work (I remember reading a Stanislaw Lem book that went on & on about the internet but made out of cassette tapes) because they were written half a century ago or books that get starried-eyed about what the internet might turn out to be used for (wHaT iF yOu HaVe To BuY aIr OnLiNe. Id even r what book this was) to be incredibly tedious.
It's gotten to the point that when looking for books to read, if a book is scifi & written before y2k I just straight up skip it. I have no tolerance anymore for people from the 60's speculating on what the internet might be. Anyone else get this?
dude i don't even know how to respond to this. does every sci-fi book you read happen to have proto-internet in it? and do you not enjoying thinking about how things could be different? Like, what if the internet was actually a net benefit to humanity? (remember when we thought people were idiots because of a lack of access to information?) There are so many good books and stories pre-2000 I cannot possible understand how you can write them all off
ps what lem book was it
I never said that it does, not sure where you'd get the impression that I think that they all do aside from you just making stuff up for me to believe in so you can be more right than me without engaging in what I'm actually saying, in which case, why bother actually commenting on the post? Just go be smugger than the people you imagine in your head elsewhere
I can see where they got the impression