I’ve banged on before about the supposed problem of imaging plausible (and non-horrid) futures in fiction. I had forgotten about the related debate about “mundane” SF – the ironic tag for stories about futures which only contain science which does not go beyond the bounds of what seems reasonable to imagine.
The constraints, as defined a [...]
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Near future fiction
November 19, 2009Near future fiction
September 4, 2009Still revising book text solidly, but holiday reading ranged a little wider so…
One of the great things about literature is that as soon as you frame a generalisation it seems to spawn counter-examples. I’ve been tempted to buy into the assertion – which has been made by a few different people now – that there [...]
how fiction shapes innovation
March 13, 2009and vice-versa…
just a call for ideas, really. I’m talking next week to a group of budding architects and designers in Italy about Innovation and visions of our future (thanks to Massimiano Bucchi for the invitation)
The idea is to get them thinking about how fictional images can influence future design ambitions and help shape new technologies, [...]
