How science fiction can shape our reality
❝ You cast a story into the future and you have thereby displayed your theory of history. How does change happen? What do we do now to make a better future? That reveals your worldview, your ideology, your political stance, your theory of history. Science fiction is always just laying that right out on a table as long as you decode the story. And one of the joys of reading science fiction is, of course, you’re always decoding. Like, what is he saying about right now that this story is representing by its future cast? It’s a game that we play that teaches us interesting things for the real world. ❞
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