Ben Reinhardt: people fear sharing positive visions of the future
Ben_Reinhardt · x · 2026-11-15
Ben Reinhardt observes that people avoid talking about positive visions of the future for fear of looking like naive nerds. His own list: infinite adventures in space, discovering the universe's real secrets, laughing and loving with friends and family, and turning imagination into reality — an explicitly optimistic counterpoint to tech-pessimist discourse.
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