10-15-2019, 12:45 PM
For no real reason other than I feel like it:
1) Why is it that in SF it doesn't matter how advanced a future civ is, it can't cure baldness? (Yes - this is based on ST:TNG and not original to me - but it's a start)
2) Why is it that in SF an oppressive one world government (usually rising to power due to massive overpopulation and resource exhaustion) can control virtually every aspect of people's lives - sometimes down to the point of having suicide booths that people presumably use - but can't provide widely available birth control and family planning services? Even when it has resources and technology far beyond our own?
3) On a related note - Why is it that in SF - no matter how advanced the tech or how massive the population problem a given future or alien world may have - birth control and family planning services are never available or used?
4) Why is it that in so many SF stories - films in particular - airlocks are made so that both doors can open at once? Or can be configured to do this in a matter of seconds to a few minutes?
What other SF Whys come to mind?
Todd
1) Why is it that in SF it doesn't matter how advanced a future civ is, it can't cure baldness? (Yes - this is based on ST:TNG and not original to me - but it's a start)
2) Why is it that in SF an oppressive one world government (usually rising to power due to massive overpopulation and resource exhaustion) can control virtually every aspect of people's lives - sometimes down to the point of having suicide booths that people presumably use - but can't provide widely available birth control and family planning services? Even when it has resources and technology far beyond our own?
3) On a related note - Why is it that in SF - no matter how advanced the tech or how massive the population problem a given future or alien world may have - birth control and family planning services are never available or used?
4) Why is it that in so many SF stories - films in particular - airlocks are made so that both doors can open at once? Or can be configured to do this in a matter of seconds to a few minutes?
What other SF Whys come to mind?
Todd