It's a very topical question regarding the sub-genres #CliFi or #ClimateFiction, #solarPunk and #hopepunk. The latter experiments with positive changes.
But it becomes extremely creepy when you take a closer look at how #SiliconValley #billionaires mix sci-fi with radical right-wing eugenics ideas and knit an anti-democratic ideology out of it. Named #TESCREAL, a sort of tech fascism: https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/ and here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/?gift=pNhm6V1nG5ZO8R8GWle1H01Kw4OvqWH8-6RE146aONg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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