{"id":243317,"date":"2026-08-28T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/adam-becker-on-more-everything-forever-and-techs-future-myths"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:02:29","slug":"adam-becker-on-more-everything-forever-and-techs-future-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/adam-becker-on-more-everything-forever-and-techs-future-myths","title":{"rendered":"Adam Becker on More Everything Forever and Tech\u2019s Future Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last summer I sat down with Adam Becker and asked him to name the most confident story in tech.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

His line from our conversation stayed with me: Silicon Valley has confused science fiction with science, and science with branding.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u201cAdam Becker on More Everything Forever and Tech\u2019s Future Myths\u201d | ><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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