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dublinben  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Okay, you crazy futurist muthafuckas...

The time scales in this book (200 years, 500 years) are laughably short for these kind of drastic changes to take place. That's only a dozen or so generations.





joelg236  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm taking it as science fiction, which makes it much cooler. Realistically I totally agree, it's absurd.

dublinben  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, it's pretty clearly fiction. I just think the unrealistic time scales hurt the illusion a bit. I suppose you run into that sort of thing any time you assign futuristic stories to a concrete date.