Sci-Fi Writers and Technology's Future

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Daniel Dern a écrit en anglais un article sur les écrivains den science fiction et les technologies du futur.

Pour cela, il a interrogé Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer, Nancy Kress et Charles Stross

tout l'article est ici

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Sci-Fi Writers and Technology's Future

– Daniel Dern, CIO

December 16, 2008
Science fiction isn't (as a rule) about predicting the future, and science fiction writers aren't trying to predict it.

"No sensible science-fiction writer tries to predict anything," says Frederick Pohl, whose work includes the classic The Space Merchants (written with Cyril M. Kornbluth), MAN PLUS, and most recently The Last Theorem, co-authored with the late Arthur C. Clarke. "Neither do the smartest futurologists. What those people do is try to imagine every important thing that may happen (so as to do in the present things which may encourage the good ones and forestall the bad) and that's what SF writers do in their daily toil."

Accurate Predictions Even When They Weren't Trying Getting to the moon by shooting a manned capsule out of a way big cannon-Jules Verne, From The Earth To The Moon. Getting to the moon courtesy of an anti-gravity metal-H.G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon courtesy of Cavorite, an anti-gravity metal. Automatically controlled sliding doors (and dozens of other things)-Hugo Gernsback. The telecommunications satellite- the late Arthur C. Clarke. Tele-operated robotic hands, and waterbeds-Robert Heinlein. ...and even more Predictions From Science Fiction."