stage 4
11:45 - 12:15
English
Talk
Beginner
Science fiction as a laboratory for big ideas

Kurzthese

Over the years science fiction has inspired the exploration of space and cyberspace and was first to imagine the robot, cyborg, clone and technological singularity. All of these are “mere byproducts” to the real focus of science fiction – society – communities, relationships, individuals – how we transform, mutate and evolve through science and how we use and abuse technology. Science fiction creators imagine the un-imaginable and explore the impossible, they perform huge scale gedankenexperiments and by doing so they give birth to our future, for giving shape to the impossible today, gives shape to the every-day of tomorrow.

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