Let's dream big dreams again

I've been asking for more optimistic sci-fi recommendations. (Still want 'em if you got 'em!)1

Meanwhile wild and crazy folks are just delivering sci-fi dreams today, like this awesome pyramid yacht concept. I know it's just a concept - but this is what I'm here for!

What are you seeing that you love? And where is the OG WIRED / Popular Science / Popular Mechanics optimistic dreaming that we used to love?

Here's another from The Cooldown with plans by Quaise Energy to dig deep for infinite energy. My kinda dreamers and builders!

I'd much rather read about folks fixing stuff than read about folks complaining about stuff... but over at The Conversation U.S. they'd rather double down on the negative doom stories being pitched by the likes of WIRED these days. Do you think this pic is picked to present Peter Thiel in a positive light? Are they telling a balanced story? (Narrator - no, no they are not).

I wrote about this earlier in response to another negative anti-billionaire anti-progress The Guardian article by Arwa Mahdawi .

Things these folks are against: space travel, cryonics, mind uploading, life extension.

Things I am for: that same list. How can you be against space travel, mind uploading, life extension? How can you be against tech progress?

The magazines of my youth were full of hopes and dreams inspiring us to build. What are today's "magazines" asking the youth to do? Complain? Fear? Dread?

I challenge every journalist who feels like it is their job to tell a scary story to ask themselves ... "are we the baddies"?

Instead - think about how you can inspire us all. Yes, tell the truth. Yes speak to the challenges - enumerate them - and place them - numerately - in the context of a broader world. Inspire us to build, fix, rise to the challenge of our era. We need more Mark Rober , less doom and gloom! ?????

tl;dr - can we fix it? Yes we can!

Thanks for reading :D

~Abe

PS - [1] wrt sci-fi recos - still want them over here.