Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures | by Brian Merchant | OneZero
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Member-only story Science Fiction Future Industry The New New Nike The New New Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures Welcome to the Sci-Fi industrial complex Brian Merchant 17 min read · Nov 28, 2018 -- 30 Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Illustration: Nicholas Law O ne of the most influential product prototypes of the 21st century wasn’t dreamed up in Cupertino or Mountain View. Its development began around a half-century ago, in the pages of a monthly pulp fiction mag. In 1956, Philip K. Dick published a short story that follows the tr
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