A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub

I chatted with Innovation Hub, distributed by PRI, about the role of science fiction and dystopia in helping to shape the future (MP3).

Three Takeaways

1. Doctorow thinks that science-fiction can give people “ideas for what to do if the future turns out in different ways.” Like how William Gibson’s Neuromancer didn’t just predict the internet, it predicted the intermingling of corporations and the state.

2. When you have story after story about how people turn on each other after disas...