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Writers who have created science fiction that could save the world

I’m at Norwescon, and one of the panels I was on posed the question, “Can science fiction save the world?” Much discussion ensued, most of it excellent. Conclusions: Maybe. It has (think of Orwell, Bradbury, etc). It’s often the stories and books that are written with no agenda to save the world that have an …

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I wanted the implants in “The Matrix”

And while I may not be able to get those, I’m likely to get an implant or implants of some kind before I die.  And that’s not from being an early adopter.  For more about what we are doing today with implants from RFID through silk, take a look at my newest column at Futurismic.

What’s Green, exciting, and then (hopefully) unnoticed?

In science fiction, we’ve long assumed that distance would disappear.  We do it with FTL travel so we can take our characters between planets the way we now travel between cities, we do it with instant communication devices, and we use teleportation.  We wave our science fictional hands at the challenges of communicating over great …

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