Friday, September 30, 2011

I Swear


They do this just to spite me.

The New York Times' "Room for Debate" topic this week?
"Sci Fi’s Far-Out Ideas Come True"
Five writers and professors talk that ol' debbil spec-lit.

For those who may not be familiar with my professional interest in the topic, here a link, there a link, everywhere a link link.

Seriously, good on you, NYT, for taking up the subject.

But points off for being too gadget-heavy, and too light on the value of teaching people how to think fearlessly about humanity's many possible tomorrows.

2 comments:

Tild said...

Ooooooooooooh, that's a beauty.

Best Lensman cover ever.

Even without the misspelling.

Kathy said...

oooOOOH! How I loved the Lensmen series! All the marvelous technology used to fight the Baddies... but in the end it was usually mano a mano!

Remember one book where the Hero & His Girl visited green humanoid aliens on their Home Planet, and were given a banquet? Instead of salting the food, the green aliens used arsenic. Green blood being copper-based rather than iron. Heh. LONG time ago...