Does not seem like a coincidence. Seems like people listing a bunch of good things people should want, and aren't embarrassed to talk about. Though tech culture is embarrassed to admit it, it has inherited a bunch of the same hangups. Or perhaps stories that don't line up with modern sensibilities are less studied?
There's a medieval tale of a fairie living in a castle of lard and cakes, in hungry detail (I haven't read it, it was referenced in T. H. White's The Once and Future King). There is at least one transhumanist novel that starts with a few pages of all the cool things people sense ("They explored the opposite of pain, not pleasure but a sort of warning for healing." etc.), before going into a plot about.. someone who has never felt a lack of feels growing older... and is bored and boring about it... I did not get terribly far into that one.
I'm working off memory, at work. I'll try to give you a followup comment with more concrete sources. And with thoughts from more than a couple of minutes in a noisy fabrication plant.
Does not seem like a coincidence. Seems like people listing a bunch of good things people should want, and aren't embarrassed to talk about. Though tech culture is embarrassed to admit it, it has inherited a bunch of the same hangups. Or perhaps stories that don't line up with modern sensibilities are less studied?
There's a medieval tale of a fairie living in a castle of lard and cakes, in hungry detail (I haven't read it, it was referenced in T. H. White's The Once and Future King). There is at least one transhumanist novel that starts with a few pages of all the cool things people sense ("They explored the opposite of pain, not pleasure but a sort of warning for healing." etc.), before going into a plot about.. someone who has never felt a lack of feels growing older... and is bored and boring about it... I did not get terribly far into that one.
I'm working off memory, at work. I'll try to give you a followup comment with more concrete sources. And with thoughts from more than a couple of minutes in a noisy fabrication plant.
Greg Bear's Eon has the interesting emotions and the bland protagonist.