#42 Heartland Podcast: Etienne Augé & Thore Husfeldt

At Heartland 2019, scholar and writer Etienne Augé met with professor of computer science Thore Husfeldt. In front of a live audience, the two discussed science fiction and how it has and will shape the future.In this conversation, the two participants discuss if science fiction is creating a dystopian future. There have been several examples where works of science fiction have predicted the future – cloning, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and so on – but is science fiction only predicting, or is it actually shaping and creating the future? And maybe even a dystopian one, which many works of science fiction depict.The two participants discuss if science fiction is the new realism and how technology depicted in fiction have the ability to make us aware of the dangers and how it can make us take a moral stand to avoid a dystopian future.Future Talks is supported by Lundbeckfonden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.