Science Fiction Can Still Deliver Visions Of The Future
Science fiction is powerful because it opens your mind to the fact that the future can look really different. And even though the last 250 years of history have seen crazy change – from the locomotive, airplane, moon landing, computers, to nuclear power – human beings are still linear thinkers. I think that training your mind for the potential of n... See more
Gavin Baker • Security Error | Columbia Business School
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I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative wei
... See moreTFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statementdisplays the narrative weight under which our future visions struggle, and why we must cultivate imagination, opportunity, and transformation that transcends our present systems... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
exploring alternate realities reveals the interlocking contingencies of the status quo, speculative stories may prove useful not just to those imagining the future, but those who seek to invent it.
Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine
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The futurists of the world struggle to convey positive and optimistic scenarios that encourage humane action.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
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In the early twenty-first century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction. Very few people read the latest articles in the fields of machine learning or genetic engineering. Instead, movies such as The Matrix and Her and TV series such as Westworld and Black Mirror shape how people understand the most important technological,
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
in the twenty-first century science fiction is arguably the most important genre of all, for it shapes how most people understand things such as AI, bioengineering, and climate change. We certainly need good science, but from a political perspective, a good science-fiction movie is worth far more than an article in Science or Nature.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
I set out to write science fiction partly for the liberated literary territory it afforded, and for the laboratory of ideas it provided to try to imagine better futures (usually by putting mirrors up to see the worst aspects of the present).