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Science Fiction Writers Discuss The Future

Posted by timothy on from the why-yes-they-do dept.

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."

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  1. The future's so bright by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I gotta wear shades... but shades that hide deadly robot eyes that shoot laser beams!

  2. About the future? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought Science Fiction wasn't about the future anymore. At least, according to Slashdot...

  3. Worst analogy ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some questions are hard to formulate - but you carry them around inside you, like Confucius overlong in the womb

    1. Re:Worst analogy ever? by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 2, Funny

      Confucius say "Ret me outta here!".

  4. Re:I actually found this kind of reassuring by grcumb · · Score: 2, Funny

    "NOrman Spinrad has been predicting the end of civilization as we know it, and/or the collapse of the US into fascism, for thirty years that I remember."

    [Emphasis mine.]

    Okay, so what you're saying is that this guy really hit the nail on the head, right? And saw it coming from a long way off, too.

    Thanks for the heads-up. I'm off to the store to buy me some Spinrad books.

    --
    Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.