{"id":12807,"date":"2015-05-04T03:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-science-fiction-influences-thinking-about\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T03:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T03:45:27","slug":"how-science-fiction-influences-thinking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-science-fiction-influences-thinking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"How science fiction influences thinking about the\u00a0future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/117616218222\/how-science-fiction-influences-thinking-about\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/79410303cf2df96209454f850e205ae2\/tumblr_inline_nnhh92QuoU1rkw4x1_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\nEileen Gunn writes, \u201cWhat\u2019s science fiction good for? The May issue of Smithsonian magazine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/how-americas-leading-science-fiction-authors-are-shaping-your-future-180951169\/?no-ist\">an essay on the relationship between science, science fiction, and the future<\/a><br \/>\n by Boing Boing buddy Eileen Gunn. Major writers \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin,<br \/>\nWilliam Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson,<br \/>\n Cory Doctorow and others \u2013 talk about why science fiction likes to<br \/>\nthink about the future and how SF can be used to help scientists think<br \/>\nabout the uses and ethics of their inventions. The rest of the issue<br \/>\ncovers science and ethical issues of the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/04\/23\/how-science-fiction-influences.html\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: Eileen Gunn writes, \u201cWhat\u2019s science fiction good for? The May issue of Smithsonian magazine has an essay on the relationship between science, science fiction, and the future by Boing Boing buddy Eileen Gunn. Major writers \u2013 Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}