Thinking About the Future Through Fiction

Fiction holds the ability of imagining alternative futures. Through comics, novels and videogames, we can explore social and technical “What If’s.” In this Medea Vox episode, we discuss how fiction can contribute to our thinking about the future in ways which other schools of thought – such as the scientific – cannot.

An episode of the Medea Vox podcast, hosted by Medea, titled "Thinking About the Future Through Fiction" was published on September 29, 2017 and runs 42 minutes.

September 29, 2017 ·42m · Medea Vox

Summary

Fiction holds the ability of imagining alternative futures. Through comics, novels and videogames, we can explore social and technical “What If’s.” In this Medea Vox episode, we discuss how fiction can contribute to our thinking about the future in ways which other schools of thought – such as the scientific – cannot.

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