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What tech hasn’t learnt from science fiction

Rambler 1 day ago
If you want to know what will happen in the distant future, read history.

For the shorter term future, try poetry and popular music.

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16 hours ago

Ray Bradbury noted that one function of science fiction was to envision avoidable futures. “I wasn’t trying to predict the future,” Bradbury told John Miller of the Wall Street Journal in a 2003 interview, “I was trying to prevent it.”


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