The speaker says that some science-fiction subcultures received funding from people in the technology industry.

“which ran the bookcase behind me about you know what computers would be able to do and what ai is and would be able to do what space colonization would look like and so on and so forth um and so they see this story coming out of these subcultures some of which were funded by uh other people in the tech industry and uh and they they see this stuff and they it”