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What many people here are sadly not getting is that this article is a critique, but not primarily of Sci-Fi in general, but of "Project Hieroglyph" (1) A specific attempt to make Sci-Fi more usefully optimistic, and the flaws in it. Project Hieroglyph launched in 2011 (2) and is now dead or dormant.

Sci-fi has of course always veered wildly between impossible wide-eyed utopian space technomancy (e.g. Star Trek) and grimdark dystopia (e.g. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream). Project Hieroglyph was a optimistic rejection of both of those.

The article concludes "the subsequent years have shown, optimism has very real limits", because unfortunately, as you probably already know, people.

If commenters here are not familiar with Project Hieroglyph and just want to ramble about sci-fi in general, go ahead but don't mistake that for a relevant criticism of the original article.

1) https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hieroglyph