Last summer I sat down with Adam Becker and asked him to name the most confident story in tech.

He picked the one nobody in Silicon Valley is allowed to question: that godlike #AI, digital immortality, and space empires are simply where history is headed. Not a hope. A destination.

Becker has a PhD in astrophysics and fifteen years as a science journalist. In his book More Everything Forever, he takes that story apart and shows where it actually came from: misread science fiction, fringe mailing lists, and a very old colonial logic about who deserves the future. From there it walked straight into university labs, congressional hearings, and your feed.

His line from our conversation stayed with me: Silicon Valley has confused science fiction with science, and science with branding.

The stakes are not academic. While we debate the welfare of trillions of hypothetical posthuman minds, the actual world runs on war, climate collapse, widening inequality, and a shared reality coming apart. Becker calls the grand visions a distraction. I asked him whether a civilization can function without a myth of the future at all.

I do not agree with everything Adam argues, and that is exactly why this one is worth your time. Watch it and tell me who you think is right about the #Singularity.

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Science journalist Adam Becker debunks Silicon Valley’s AI, immortality, and space myths in More Everything Forever. Check it out!