It's a trope from The Onion and like a lot of satire, it's realer than real. The essay linked below explains how zillionaire techbros have looted science fiction for settings and widgets while discarding the philosophy and warnings to rot. Is the future not what you were promised? Yeah, me, too, and here's one big reason why.
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* Title riffed from Alfred Bester's short story, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed," which you should read if you haven't. It's almost reassuring. Or is it?
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