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08:16 | 31-05-2009 | Literature | No Comments
вслед за интересной дискуссией о Леме и его видении научной фантастики, тут же заметил у Стерлинга краткий пересказ 8 проблем, озвученных Йэном Маклеодом:
- Future not dominated by Western culture and its archaic Western concepts of “futurity”
- Future subjects of fiction not “people” as we know human beings today
- Space travel not what we once imagined, and faster-than-light travel flatly impossible
- Science becoming arcane and ultraspecialized, while the nature of reality may well be beyond any human/scientific comprehension
- “Alien life forms” likely unrecognizable, may not exist at all, or may be among us already, just not understood as alien
- Basic technical infrastructure of a future society incomprehensible to us
- Radical language drift makes future indescribable within present-day literature
- We may have no future due to human/planetary mass extinction
и правильно: НФ — это прежде всего футурология.