Predictions for a Science Fiction Future - by Andrew Cote
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Everyone makes predictions. How about some that are genuinely out there?
The hard sciences of our era leave open only a narrow slice of the space of possible science fiction universes, almost wholly confined to solar/bio-punk, rockets, robots, and AI. We need to look past this into the controversially strange nature of reality and determine if thats really as weird as it can get. This is probably the most interesting open question in the world right now and likely one of the most polarized. It seems a good deal many serious thinkers are completely convinced that intelligent life in the universe is extremely rare. On the other hand, there are a good deal many…
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