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kevrob <AnSpideog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>One of my local papers reprinted this article:
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>http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103328.html
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>or http://preview.tinyurl.com/646r6f
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>from the 13 April 2008 edition.
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>In it, Joel Achenbach quotes Christine Peterson, vice president of
>Foresight Nanotech Institute in Menlo Park, CA, who says:
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>[quote]
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>"Even smart people are really pretty incapable of envisioning a
>situation that's substantially different from what they're
>in," ...... Peterson has one recommendation: Read science fiction,
>especially "hard science fiction" that sticks rigorously to the
>scientifically possible. "If you look out into the long-term future
>and what you see looks like science fiction, it might be wrong," she
>says. "But if it doesn't look like science fiction, it's definitely
>wrong."
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>[/quote]
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>If WaPO disappears this, it's also on the Achenblog:
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>http://blog.wa****ngtonpost.com/achenblog/2008/04/letter_from_technological_palo.html
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>I was pleasantly surprised to see, in the MSM, a rationale for reading
>SF that I have long held to: that aside from SF's imperfect
>predictive power, its readers acquire a habits of mind that help them
>deal with change.
ObSF: Turtledove, _Earthgrip_.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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