Or perhaps it make you realize how much of current ideas and tech is based on ancient stuff (but improved), still it feels like tech has stagnated a bit.
It doesn't feel like we are really moving forward, at least from my day to day life.
You're not the only one, unrelated to thread but what did you expect? a civilisation in decline can't create and innovate when results and truth isn't the priority for a majority of society.
Have to admit I didn't catch it untill very late in the book but it's a very interesting repudiation of communist rebellions. The "here's the lies and propaganda the protagonists do" and it's written as normal is a very effective way of getting people to recognise it in real life. The exchanges with reporters could be verbatim for real life exchanges.
Growing wheat on the moon and space tourism are jest facts of life, but CGI? Basically witchcraft.
Also underlined in this segment is that though you can build a powder keg, you can't always control what sets it off. Ominous considering the state of the world today.
Adding Deepfakes to the lists of things Heinlein predicted.
Or perhaps it make you realize how much of current ideas and tech is based on ancient stuff (but improved), still it feels like tech has stagnated a bit.
You're not the only one, unrelated to thread but what did you expect? a civilisation in decline can't create and innovate when results and truth isn't the priority for a majority of society.
Have to admit I didn't catch it untill very late in the book but it's a very interesting repudiation of communist rebellions. The "here's the lies and propaganda the protagonists do" and it's written as normal is a very effective way of getting people to recognise it in real life. The exchanges with reporters could be verbatim for real life exchanges.
Any rebellion really. The American Revolution was largely driven by lies an propaganda.
Growing wheat on the moon and space tourism are jest facts of life, but CGI? Basically witchcraft.
Also underlined in this segment is that though you can build a powder keg, you can't always control what sets it off. Ominous considering the state of the world today.
Not that much different from just before WWI
With the notable exception that we now have the power to destroy the human race.
Got it