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"You don't predict the future — you imagine the future," says sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders. In a talk that's part dream, part research-based extrapolation, she takes us on a wild, speculative tour of the delights and challenges the future may hold — and shows how dreaming up weird, futuristic possibilities empowers us to construct a better tomorrow.
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This is exactly why I’ve always struggled with writing science fiction. It’s already difficult enough coming up with good plots and characters, and then there is so much to research and even if you do, you still have to make most of this future up in your brain while also trying to make sure it makes some scientific and social sense. Which is very difficult, especially when you lack the necessary knowledge. (Oh, and don’t even get me started on future lingo and slang).
That’s why the druggie in this film will always stay inept.
@Sebastiaan De Wit What makes you think she is a “druggie”?
“Our thoughts are the creator of our destiny”. So be careful how you think.
People should be jailed for wrongthink.
The only thing I want for now is this virus to end. I’ll think about the future after.
Virus SV boil water!
Kagome Hayashi it will never end
This is a weak virus, with a weaker government. Be wary letting other people determine who is ‘essential’. It is called ‘macro aggression’, and leads to massive wars and genocide.
When I was a little boy back in the 1960s we all thought the “future” would be a hybrid of the Jetsons and any one or more of those cheesy 1950s sci fi movies.
david icke hunger games society confirmed.
Some of these TED Talks sound like ideas you’d come up with when you’re really stoned but instead of dismissing it, an expert or professional devotes their lives trying to legitimize it.
We can savely assume this also takes in copious amounts of psycho-active substances.
@Sebastiaan De Witsafely.
Happy 4/20
I’ll pile on the candy,
It’s such a pretty sight
It makes the food taste dandy
But my tummy hurts all night
I’ll put in some ingredients
But keep the rest for me
I’m not just disobedient
I’m careful, can’t you see?
It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake
If the way is hazy,
You gotta do the cooking by the book
You know you can’t be lazy
Never use a messy recipe,
The cake will end up crazy
If you do the cooking by the book,
Then you’ll have a cake
We gotta have it made,
You know that I love cake
Finally, it’s time to make a cake!
Making food is just like science,
With tools that blend and baste
And every fun appliance
Gives the food a different taste!
It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake
If the way is hazy,
You gotta do the cooking by the book
You know you can’t be lazy
Never use a messy recipe,
The cake will end up crazy
If you do the cooking by the book,
Then you’ll have a cake
We gotta have it made,
You know that I love cake
Finally, it’s time to make a cake
We gotta have it made,
You know that I love cake
Finally, it’s time to make a –
‘You gotta do the cooking by the book!’
Cake!
the first second i saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a video from lazy town lol sorry
Guilty.
“Remember her? This is how she looks now. Feeling old?”
The future, social degradation, economic strife and living in the post pandemic era.
2021 to 2024 will be the deciding factor for what the future holds.
Unless politics is changed, we will further decline.
World over right wing,( in China it’s communists), authoritarian, corporate backed leaders are ruining things
They all must go
Compassion, fraternity, equality, freedom , wisdom must prevail
Ya’ll judgin the speech by her outfit when she’s just sharing what sci-fi writers think of when they write and her specific process. Listen more, judge less.
Parts of imagination is going to come true.
The day will come true. The doctors of the future treat most diseases without medicine. Coming soon.
One example is because most people are becoming gradually aware of the dangers and costs of the medical system.
We can communicate from one ends of the world to the other ends. Telecommute..
The future of microobiology will create a simple sewer system to quickly treat waste water.
Avoiding expensive long pipe systems. Which of the waste goes to the main sewer treatment system.
Some of it is happening as I speak…. Thanks.
I adored the way how u imagine the future world, how u r taking care about details nd making them possible, I just find that we imagine the world that we hope not that we think nd search about.
What future? Lol
“…how a future, brilliant city ensures no one is homeless…” Let’s make that concept a reality! The future belongs to those who can imagine and create a better place. Thank you, Charlie Jane Anders, for your message of hope.
Yeah I wanna be homeless if I wanna be, screw you autocratic totalitarianists sucking at the teet of govt, sitting on its wanker, giving more and more freedoms for more “security”
Feeling old yet?
I live in a world of “let’s pretend”…ffs
7:15 “cleaning wands” *trusts hands to demonstrate*
…no thanks.