I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of “well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine”.
I mean there’s gotta be another way. Examples?
I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of “well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine”.
I mean there’s gotta be another way. Examples?
There’s plenty of star trek episodes that are more about philosophical and societal questions than tech.
The bicentennial man by Isaac Asimov comes to mind. Which is about a robot, but in essence it’s about the philosophical question what it means to be human.
There’s Ubik by Philip K Dick, which is about about tech, when you get down to it, but in a very unique and un-tech like way.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys is not about tech, but the chronicles of a brain surgery patient that became extremely smart.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons is basically just “The Canterbury Tales” in space.
There’s plenty more stories that are not really about tech. You could try searching for dystopia themes, like “Maze runner” or “the hunger games” or “I am legend” or “wayward pines”
Flowers for Algernon is an extraordinary piece of storytelling, without relying too much on “the machines”