From Smithsonian:
But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. Writers may find the future appealing precisely because it can’t be known, a black box where “anything at all can be said to happen without fear of contradiction from a native,” says the renowned novelist and poet Ursula K. Le Guin. “The future is a safe, sterile laboratory for trying out ideas in,” she tells Smithsonian, “a means of thinking about reality, a method.”
LOTS of good stuff in this article!
I'm looking forward to plowing through the whole issue soon. (AND PATRICK STEWART IS ON THE COVER, SWOON.)
I really should re-subscribe. I love Smithsonian.
Patrick Stewart is also on the cover of the latest AARP Magazine. Is it sad that I know that?
Posted by: Kelly Ramsdell Fineman | 30 April 2014 at 10:15 AM
Absolutely not! It just means that your Starfleet radar is in good working order.
Posted by: Leila | 30 April 2014 at 10:25 AM