Not quite sure where this thread should go - SciFi and Fantasy, World Events or somewhere else. A comment a much as a question. Has this notion has been explored more formally/academically? Does it have merit?

Current events brought this writer's works to mind - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Geta aka Courtship Rights. I think it was more explicit in the...

There has been quite a bit of talk recently in the media (including The New York Times and the New Yorker) and among academics inside and outside the United States about the current political situation and the danger of the country sliding towards a second civil war.

Here, I reproduce some quotes from an article in The Guardian (4 Jan 2022), by Step...

(AP) - The president, following a 158th viewing of the 2013 film "Gravity," was briefly distracted from his usual routine of contemplating (and commenting on to staff) the firmness of Sandra Bullock's derriere by the scene which depicts the onset of a destructive ablation cascade. While it's unclear what drew the president's attention on this particular viewing, it became quickl...

Technology and Talent, Time and Tide

And then there is this, per Associated Press↱:

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the e...