Stanisław Lem died 20y ago today, a brilliant #scifi #author and #philosopher, best known for his 1961's novel Solaris.

He envisioned many technologies before they really happened, including the internet and how it would lead to the fractured, post-truth political world we live in today (1968's His Master's Voice).

Having used the actual internet decades later, he also said: "Until I started using the Internet, I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world."

https://culture.pl/en/article/13-things-lem-predicted-about-the-future-we-live-in