We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

“What one gathers from these misreadings is not so much that science fiction itself is nefarious, but that arrested development might be. These particular boys … came to fetishize the books they had read rather than revisiting them with adult eyes.” www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys. Today’s tech titans took all the wrong lessons from the science fiction of their youths and now they’re each building their version of the Torment Nexus. [theatlantic.com]

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When Musk, Bezos, Altman etc were teens, they were obsessive fans of sci-fi books by Isaac Asimov, but didn’t realize his vision was warning of apocalypse, not a blueprint for an ideal life. Bezos clearly missed the values embedded in his beloved “Star Trek” www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

From The Atlantic: We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys Been saying this for years. All the tech billionaires took the wrong lessons from every piece of fiction they’ve consumed. They’re stuck in the mindset of a 13 year old boy trying to become the kid in school everyone likes.

“What one gathers from these misreadings is not so much that science fiction itself is nefarious, but that arrested development might be” www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...