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Quinones Lecture - The Future Is Implausible: Why Science Fiction Always Gets the Future Wrong (And Why That’s a Good Thing)

Through a series of images drawn by artists from the past imagining life in the future, Ken Liu, award-winning author of speculative fiction, asks the audience to think through provocative questions about the science fictional imagination. What do sci-fi authors tend to get wrong about the future? What do they tend to get right? Is science fiction about “predicting” the future? And just why is the future so difficult to pin down?

Photo Credit: Lisa Tang Liu