The Ministry for the Future makes open source social media look easy. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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I did like the book but I also thought they solved huge problems in a single short chapter with minimal detail.

In one chapter it's mentioned that one of the characters is working on some open source social media. A few chapters later it becomes the dominant social media in the world... oh and also payment method... Oh and blockchain...

Being a big fan of Lemmy, I think the book is a bit optimistic.

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[-] Glemek@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I love Kim Stanley Robinson, but yeah, he is definitely handwaving past a lot of the feasibility and hard work involved in many of the solutions presented. He is just a writer throwing out ideas more than working thru the struggles of implementing and getting adoption of those ideas.

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, he focuses on some struggles more than others. In Ministry it's more about a few activists and one relevant bureaucrat organizing from top down and bottom up, and not really about labourers other than vignettes for context. Character development over plot for KSR, usually.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's very fair.

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