90s science mags were all e/acc optimism; the 2000s turned doomer
rickasaurus · x · 2026-09-26
The author notes a cultural shift: 90s science magazines were full of e/acc-style optimism — Mars bases, beating cancer, living forever — while in the 2000s the tone flipped to environmental doom. The post echoes the ongoing optimism-vs-doomer divide in today's AI discourse.
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