binary solo said:
Not true. Sci fi tells us that the future for humanity is a one world govt and a single currency. All the Earth based sci-fi I've read/seen has it that way, so it must be true. It's sci-fi authorss core business to predict the future and they are all pretty much agreed on these points. |
Like with all works of fiction, the worlds created by them represents ideas the writers have. And if the minds of them are from geeks, as they usually are, you will end up with a perspective that is common, but may or may not be correct. About all sci-fi writers also write about there being aliens out there. Just because about all of them do, doesn't mean that there are. It is just a collective bias out there.
You know, there may even be an end to what we know as currency at this time. Fiat money systems could break down, and something else rise up to replace it. Then, you may not end up with one currency, but thousands and millions of different ones, floating around in a market system, traded the way FOREX does now, which represent contracts to acquire goods and services at a future date. We may also end up with anarchy and no governments. The future could be a variant on the Madmax world, but maybe holding together, with no one single currency.
The reality is that we don't know. Also, it isn't the core business of sci-fi writers to predict the future, but to write entertaining fiction based around science, as opposed to magic. They do make interesting observations, and sometimes do good jobs predicting.
