Science Meets Science Fiction | Near-Future Fictions | Virtual Futures
Channel: Virtual Futures
Date: 15/11/2018

Virtual Futures presents a panel discussion, and a series of short-story readings, on using near-future fiction to foster transformative conversations between scientists and other audiences.

By imagining possible futures, near-future fiction has the capacity to seize on the science and technology currently researched in laboratory environments and take it just far enough that it can provoke audiences to think on impending potential implications for society.

How can science fiction be used to create a self-reflexive capacity in scientists? How can fiction help communicate scientifc research to the wider public? How can encounters between the arts, humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences or engineering be fostered?

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Panelists

Pippa Goldschmidt, Science Fiction Author

Ken MacLeod, Science Fiction Author

Jennifer Rohn, Founder of LabLit.com

Geoff Ryman, Science Fiction Author

Moderated by:

Stephen Oram, Science Fiction Author

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Find out more: http://virtualfutures.co.uk

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Credits

Produced by Virtual Futures
Camera by Playhouse Pictures
Sound by David Thirion
Edited by Luke Robert Mason
Thanks to Dr Christine Aicardi
Thanks to Stephen Oram
Thanks to Tom Ward

Hosted at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road: http://waterstones.com

Supported by The Cultural Institute at King’s College London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/Cultural/Cultural-Institute/index.aspx

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