It reminds me of a story I’ve read, where someone from an early-21st-century capitalist culture goes back in time and tells a few Cro-Magnon hunters and gatherers what wonders the future will contain, and they (very convincingly) argue that they are no overall improvement at all.
It’s recent enough that this is probably not it, but Miller has that exact story in the first chapter of his new book Spent.
It’s recent enough that this is probably not it, but Miller has that exact story in the first chapter of his new book Spent.
Yes, that was it.