Humanities Future and Sci-Fi Grounded in Reality 


                    I find bot interesting and concerning how whenever we take serious look at the science fiction possibilities of the human race on a more serious level it is almost never a positive thing, usual the technology is evil, or the humans who control the technology are evil. It's never a happy reflection of how for we've come and how better off the whole race is with the technology we now have. I think we can trace most of this back to the era where grounded science fiction began, the cold war. At that point in history when most people in the world thought they were all about to die in a nuclear holocaust no one was really reflecting positively where technology had taken them, to the brink of their own destruction. So thats what they wrote about, and Ray Bradberry's Martian Chronicles is an excellent example. In the Martian Chronicles earth is plagued by nuclear war, overpopulation and lack of resources so humans start heading to Mars to try again, but in the spirit of the cold war it doesn't matter where humans go, they bring the urge to use technology selfishly with them and many of the short stories in the book are tragic and over the course of them humans kill martians, martians kill humans and humans kill humans. Until the end of the book where most of the Martians have been genocided by Chicken Pox  and earth is annihilated in nuclear war. Despite all our advancements in technology and the meeting of a whole other species of life human were still cruel tribalistic animals that destroyed everything they touched, which I think is a strong reoccurring theme in grounded sci-fi and still is if you look at movies like Elysium or District nine. And this concept was really birthed from the fear and regret regarding nuclear weapons in the 50's and 60's.