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The Purpose of Science Fiction

How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology. By Robert J. SawyerPosted Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, at 10:26 AM ET …our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it’s to suggest all the possible futures—so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go. George Orwell’s science-fiction classic Nineteen...

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theapparatusissublime asked: Your blog is plethora of interesting and wonderful things. I am so happy you are watching me and I watching you.

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“Nerds are allowed to love stuff. Like, jump up and down in your chair can’t...”

– Nerdfighters from this video. (via nerdypopculture)

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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under sciencefiction,...

I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #sciencefiction, #lgbt, #gay

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He Who Controls the Spice, Controls the Universe.

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The future isn't dead. We simply overtook it.

By Warren Ellis 08 December 10 I pointed out that sci-fi wasn’t really about prediction so much as about the extrapolation of present-day tendencies, and that prediction is a side effect of science fiction, much like headaches and the inability to operate heavy machinery. Extrapolation is a word worth unpacking, in this regard. One dictionary definition: “to infer or estimate by...

Jan 24th

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Get Your Ass to "Mars"

520-day flight simulation nears ‘landing’ on Mars January 21st, 2011 in Space & Earth / Space Exploration Enlarge Members of the Mars500 crew wave before being locked into the isolation facility in Moscow, 2010. Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June. After...

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