Teresa Dowd
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Your stories key on responsibility and consequences, good and bad... the societal implications of even a few medical areas have had profound affects in your diaspora future cultures, Are there any trends in science or culture you see more recently you would love to go after if you were younger, that may be as profound when they hit the fan? Any trends you think are less important than they seemed 30 years ago?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Hm. In general, I lay no claim to being a futurist, although it's always fun to be right twice a day. I'm not sure what you mean by "you would love to go after if you were younger" -- as a writer? As a student? As a patient? (This week, I want a noninvasive cure for macular pucker, if I get a pick.)
For anyone interested in prognostication, I'd say keep an eye on biology. Where any pop sci books published more than five years ago are now out of date, as are some that were published one year ago. Or last week. The explosion in biology itself, of course, stems heavily from the explosion in computing and communication. Progress is happening all over in a 3D or maybe 4D web, not in a line, which makes any linear extrapolation, the favorite of many (but not me), almost bound to be incorrect.
This seems like a good topic to throw open to the comments section.
Ta, L.
Hm. In general, I lay no claim to being a futurist, although it's always fun to be right twice a day. I'm not sure what you mean by "you would love to go after if you were younger" -- as a writer? As a student? As a patient? (This week, I want a noninvasive cure for macular pucker, if I get a pick.)
For anyone interested in prognostication, I'd say keep an eye on biology. Where any pop sci books published more than five years ago are now out of date, as are some that were published one year ago. Or last week. The explosion in biology itself, of course, stems heavily from the explosion in computing and communication. Progress is happening all over in a 3D or maybe 4D web, not in a line, which makes any linear extrapolation, the favorite of many (but not me), almost bound to be incorrect.
This seems like a good topic to throw open to the comments section.
Ta, L.
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Can you imagine Miles volunteering with a suicide prevention charity? "Don't do it! Being dead didn't solve any of my problems at all, they were all here when they brought me back plus this lousy seizure disorder. The afterlife is totally unmemorable, I don't remember anything between dying and being defrosted." Unless you want to argue that his physical brain didn't go and couldn't record it, Miles would have questio
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I was just recommended Paladin's Grace by T Kingfisher, have read it and really enjoyed it - the romance with the protagonists tripping over their own feet and the baggage from their pasts reminded me of A Civil Campaign. I thought you might enjoy it so came to see if you'd already read it - and found you are already listing almost everything by T Kingfisher - except Paladin's Grace. So, a new one for you?
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