The Final Horizon: How Science Fiction Froze Our Imagination — and AI Finished the Job

TL;DR: Science fiction taught us to treat the cosmos as unknowably vast, and we stopped trying to understand it. Cosmology became a postgraduate pursuit instead of a public curiosity. The Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution democratized knowledge; the AI revolution is privatizing it. 1. When Wonder Replaced Curiosity As a kid, I never understood why […]