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 Easy E wrote:
We all ready live in Cyberpunk future.

Sorry to break the news to you.

Oh it’s worse than that. We’re in an unrelentingly dull dystopia. We don’t even get the fun toys, just the misery.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
The Federation and the Culture are definitely utopias worth striving for. We might just eed to push through Snow Crash to get there

Star Trek does acknowledge that you need to wipe out the donkey-caves first.

Utopian thinking by design ends in tyranny. It can never end in anything else. Infact your statement alone is a perfectly reasonable conclusion of why it ends in tyranny.

"Just one less group that doesn't want to fit in your percieved utopia."

Hence why AI and technofuturism is in essence only thinly veiled technofeudalistic surveilance stateism. As an current exemple.

Every system is a tyranny. Not a single one will allow you the tools to dismantle it. Hence the surveilance stateism we're currently speedrunning towards, now that liberal democracy has economically failed badly enough that even some amongst the unwashed masses are, out of the corner of our eyes, vaguely perceiving the bars of the cage we've been told for 80 years wasn't there.