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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-5CEtLKYIRA/science-fiction-sucks-at-predi.html
Science fiction sucks at prediction, and that's OK
My latest Locus column, "A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future," talks about science fiction's uselessness as a predictive medium, and its great utility as a medium for thinking about, attaining, and preventing futures. But the really interesting thing is how science fiction does its best tricks: through creating the narrative vocabularies by which futures [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-5CEtLKYIRA/science-fiction-sucks-at-predi.html
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