How millionaires are inspired by science fiction to build their businesses

Will billionaires save us from the end of the world? That's the premise Argentine writer Michel Nieva develops in his latest book, "Capitalist Science Fiction," in which he explores how the world's richest tech bros have used this genre to serve their megacorporations.

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In an interview with BBC Mundo, Nieva explained that Silicon Valley's corporate aesthetics and narratives are often influenced by science fiction films or books. This includes names, clothing, infrastructure, among other elements.

"These examples are a symptom of how classic American science fiction has become a mythological engine for capitalism's technological projects, which involve confronting the great challenges of our time, such as climate change or the union of human and artificial intelligence," the author noted.

The author also mentioned that this is the only part of the world where there is a political proposal associated with technology.

"The irony is that these Silicon Valley billionaires come up with messianic proposals, like taking humanity to Mars or solving great existential dilemmas like mortality, but in reality, they're nothing more than business ventures run by magnate corporations that benefit only 1% of humanity," he added.

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In this sense, the book contrasts proposals that aim to help humanity, but are actually ideas that would benefit a small portion of the population.

"Today, the only concrete proposals for technologies like artificial intelligence involve automating human processes to put people out of work, or putting these tools to work in war," he emphasized.

Nieva also referred to the profiles of billionaires like Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk, most of whom tend to view the state as a constraint, despite it being one of their main funders.

"They want to cut funding for health care and education, but they're the ones who received the most state benefits and continue to do so. So this image of the iconoclastic hacker who opposes the state has been hypocritically fostered, when in reality, it's quite the opposite," the writer emphasized.

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