TL;DR version: between the lack of technical advances that are immediately obvious to laymen and the new tendency in science fiction toward pessimistic and introspective works, the popular idea of the myth of scientific progress is losing ground to myths of regression and millennial, and we should counter this by writing optimistic scifi and creating big symbolic works.
Edit: and a counterbalance!
Does having research value create moral obligation?
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Suppose a person is born, who's mind functions entirely different than that
of any other human. They can solve infinitely complex math problems at a
glan...
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