Twelve Tomorrows: How Science Fiction uses Today's Technology to Envision the Future
When:
Saturday, Dec 02, 2023 1:00p -
2:30p
Saturday, Dec 02, 2023 1:00p -
2:30p
Where:
MIT Museum
314 Main St.
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Rainy Day Ideas, Social Good, Tech
Event website:
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science
Since 2011, the MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows series of anthologies has brought together the day’s leading science fiction authors and tasked them with exploring the role and potential impact of developing technologies in the near, and not-so-near, future.
How will technology impact the future of our emotional connections with one another? Can an imagined pandemic prepare us for the next real one? What does human flourishment look like in the Anthropocene? The stories of Twelve Tomorrows remind us that we can choose our future and show us how we might build it.
Join a panel of Hugo Award-winning authors as they discuss the value and utility of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the future and interrogate the present.
Signed copies of Communications Breakdown will be available for sale following the program.
Free with Museum admission. Pre-registration not required or available.
Seating is limited so early arrival is suggested.
