{"id":299,"date":"2022-04-02T21:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/how-science-fiction-can-shape-our-reality\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T21:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T21:59:01","slug":"how-science-fiction-can-shape-our-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/how-science-fiction-can-shape-our-reality\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/your_undivided_attention_how_science_fiction_can_shape_our_reality\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/your_undivided_attention_how_science_fiction_can_shape_our_reality\",\"title\":\"How science fiction can shape our reality \",\"description\":\"The meta-crisis is so vast: climate change, exponential technology, addiction, polarization and more. How do we grasp it, let alone take ste\",\"author\":\"Your Undivided Attention \",\"site_name\":\"ted.com\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"20611e33314f71ce30e567b12a7ca7be:fe39b2cbb20be7bb-2c\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1050,\"height\":550}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/your_undivided_attention_how_science_fiction_can_shape_our_reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How science fiction can shape our reality <\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u275d 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&rsquo;re always decoding. Like, what is he saying about right now that this story is representing by its future cast? It&rsquo;s a game that we play that teaches us interesting things for the real world. \u275e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How science fiction can shape our reality \u275d 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. 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