Science Fiction Can Still Deliver Visions Of The Future
People understand things through narratives, including the future. Everyone is the science fiction writer of their own life. When hoping for a good life, and thinking about what might bring that about, we are utopian writers; when fearful that bad things will happen, we are dystopian writers.
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight
We underestimate the power of these kinds of dreams, these kinds of visions, and the stories we can tell that bring them to life. In fact, one of the things all great movements have in common – those that have brought about real change like the Civil Rights movement, the suffragettes and LGBT rights campaigners – is that the participants are able t
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