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Science Fiction Writers Discuss The Future
An Anonymous Reader writes "Locus Magazine asks prominent science fiction writers Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Pat Murphy, Norman Spinrad, and Ken Wharton to extrapolate the future from current trends in the environment, copyright, terrorism, war, world government, and the upcoming Presidential election. How do large groups make decisions on single issues? Are centralized global systems of governance the way to go? Are stateless diasporas the driving force behind the economic development of India and China? Will there always be war? The answer to these questions and more in a round-table conducted by legendary science fiction writer John Shirley."
You dumb fuck. I sincerely hope your testicles fall off for such a blatant plagarisation of somebody else's post.
WTF is that - a conference of pro-Kerry SF writers?
That s(h)ite should change their name to LocusT Magazine. A bunch of parazites.
That guy Spinrad can hardly make a comment without stating his anarcho-communist views.. Poor bastard! Science fiction my ass, these guys are clueless. But hey, this is what Slashdot serves, so let's read it!
Some nonsensical statements from that pathetic interview:
> if Bush is re-elected, straight into the worst fascist shitter this country has ever experienced
Very eloquent, Norman!
I might not like Bush and I might use four letter words but you don't do that in interviews, you miserable piece of shit.
>such as the comparison of copying to "theft" -- even though the former leaves a perfectly good original behind, while the latter deprives the owner of her property.
What's the fucking difference? With physical property, you use it to make money. With intellectual property, you license it.
So if they don't pay, you don't make money. The same shit as if they've stolen your tractor.
>Offshore Chinese and non-resident Indians are the secret of India's and China's current booms
Wrong, it would have happened anyway.
If that is the case, why did the Asian boom happen in the past 2-4 years? Because the technology makes it possible.
>The worldwide population explosion. 50-100 years from now population will have mostly stabilized at something,
Gezuz does that guy read? World population will peak sometime about 2040. Growth rates have already fallen faster than anyone was predicting five years ago. He should check some recent research on this.
>For one thing, the US is running out of troops.
Norman, Norman - I thought you are a SF writer? How about robots and shit? Gee, this guy is negating 10 years in military developments to push his views. Shameless punk.
The right wing HAS no future.